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“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”

Men World Writing Children Has Beens Art Real Whole Joy Artist Universe Born Religious Love Is Subjects Painting Birth Art Is Whole World Impulse Non Religious

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.”

“I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.”

Thinking Way Trying Ideas Religious Answers Approach Conversion Impulse Candidates Searchers

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.”

Art Real Religious Subjects Art Is Impulse Sacrilegious Non Religious

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”

Belief Religious Century Institutions Impulse Void Magnitude Religious Belief Fling

Book:Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case

Source: Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case

“It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.”

Culture Lost Force Religious Impulse Sooner Or Later Supplies

Book:Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

Source: Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

“There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.”

Want Believe I Can Church Religious Involved Impulse Betray Strain

Author:Ruth Wilson

“Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.”

Problem Religious Curiosity Theology Mysterious Impulse Initials Intercourse Wavering

Book:Scientific meta-physics

Source: Scientific meta-physics

“The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.”

Religious Levels Development Impulse Love Life

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.”

Men Reason Born Religious Moral Bears Ideals Impulse

Book:ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית

Source: ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית