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“Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.”

Done Reality Belief Left Felt Religious Regret Burden Guilty Anxious Slips Belief In God Inadequacy Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.”

People Felt Religious Needed Busy Guidance Too Busy

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely acquired the rudiments of religious instruction, turned with childlike attachment to men whose minds were stored with the knowledge of Scripture, of Cicero, of St. Augustine; and in the scanty world of their ideas, the Church was felt to be something infinitely vaster, stronger, holier than their newly founded States.”

Men World Mind Book Ideas States School Felt Church Religious Stronger Scripture Attachment Instruction Possessed Secular Barbarians Childlike Clergy Augustine

Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”

Reality Seems Certain Values Felt Religious Conditions Stage Divine Limits Perfection Bounds Accepted Festivals Novelty Convenience Eccentric Predecessors Profane Melodrama Irresponsibility

Author:Laura Riding

“Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.”

Needs Kind Matter Philosophy Belief Felt Religious Right Now No Matter What Crap Religious Belief Muddle Good Philosophy

Author:Michael Dirda

“I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.”

Thinking Felt Religious Attention Sacrifice Grew Grew Up Paid Backgrounds Goats

Author:Brad Pitt

“Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.”

People Hard States America Felt Religious Lines United United States Groups Awareness Movement Buddhism Cult Rama Protestantism Lax Religious Cults

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.”

People Felt Religious Existence Quality Compassion Mystery Atheism Standards Atheist Positive Atheism Awe Urges Conventional Innate Militant Sufferers

Author:James A. Haught

“I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."”

People Feels Believe I Believe Felt Religious Movement Tradition Pressure Feminist I Believe In Believe In God Reporters Religious Traditions Feminist Movement

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.”

Book Hands Felt Religious Justice Duty Balance Sacred Islam Believer Occasions Almighty Sovereign Moderation Literal Religious Education

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.”

Ifs Believe Stills God Lasts Felt Religious Prayer Cold Worship Singing Blind Silly Mathematical Useless There Is No God Praying To God Hymns Cleaners I Still Believe God Prayer

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.”

People Ifs Want Should Government Felt Religious Opinion Practice Gun Interfere

Author:John Kasich