“The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.” MenCountryPoliticalReligionNationsReligiousMarkSentimentsDenominationsLiberality Book:The Papers of George Washington Source: The Papers of George Washington
“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.” MenHomeEarthSpiritualLife IsDeathReligionReligiousLevelsProgressChangedEternalRootsBreathsWingsSicknessSentimentsBroadsEaglesConfinedHomesicknessIndestructibleReligious LifeSpiritual ProgressThoughts Of Death Author:Walter Pater
“The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.” WorldHumansFormReligionValuesChristianityHuman NatureBibleInfiniteFollySentimentsCeremony Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.” KnowsBelieveLongEnoughReligionHonorSentimentsOne Time Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.” SeemsLawReligionNaturalJusticePartyMankindIndependentSentiments Author:Voltaire
“IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.” IfsHeartMayCountryChristianReligionFearMoralDutyGoes OnHighestFortuneConvictionBeing TrueOur CountrySentimentsCommandmentsPosterityProspering Book:Daniel Webster: The Completest Man Source: Daniel Webster: The Completest Man
“If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.” PeopleIfsWantShouldReligionGunBitterImmigrantsSentimentsClingingBitter People Author:Bill Maher
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.” KnowsHas BeensIdeasDreamAgeReligionPrinciplesFundamentalsMereSentimentsDogmaFifteenMockery60th BirthdayFundamental Principles Author:John Henry Newman