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“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

Believe Hands Moving Religion Politics Sides Atheism Subjects Historical Atheist Appearance Tyranny Devotion Treatment Illegal Tyrants Rulers Pious Uncommon Atheistic

Author:Aristotle

“The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.”

Earth Moving Religion Universe Errors Doctrine Absurd Center Of The Universe Rotation

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.”

Ifs Has Beens Moving Religion Empty If I Could Legends Easter Tombs Messengers Angelic Apparitions

Book:Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

“I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.”

God Wanted Moving Religion House Movement Bread Altars Bowel Movements

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.”

“Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.”

Needs Moving Religion Technology Skills Mountain Move Mountains Technical Skills

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”

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Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

Moving Spirit Religion Spirituality Mystery Willing Vulnerable Gardening

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63