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“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.”

Religion Roots Spread Uncertainty Soil Fertile Dogmatism Fertile Soil

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.”

Needs Believe Spiritual Religion I Believe Causes Deals Moral Christianity Disease Consequence Roots Radical Symptoms Imperatives Revival Reformation Malady

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.”

Doe Care Religion Morality Roots Tests Fruit Core Grades

Book:Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters

Source: Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters

“I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.”

“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”

Looks Heart Religion Powerful Cutting Tree Morality Fairs Roots Skins Lays Core Command Apples Knives Pruning

Author:Nathaniel Culverwell

“The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.”

Mean Religion Turns Roots Casts Prisoner Sinister

Author:Annie Laurie Gaylor

“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

Art Artist Religion Economic Spring Economics Roots Stranger Religion And Art

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.”

Men Religion Memories Atheism Missing Roots Commit Superstitions Morality And Religion

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works

“In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.”

Life Important Play Religion Tree Objects Eternal Roots Eternity Miracle Sacred Seeds Symbols Streams Cult Eternal Life Veneration Assyrians

Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes