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“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.”

Light Religious Walks Failing Feet Window And Love Dues Proof Pale Roof Casting Pillars Antiques Studious

Book:Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems

Source: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems

“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source: I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

“Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.”

Men Heart Soul Light Spirit Church Religious Son Holy Pure Tradition Missions Useless Holy Spirit Etc Abandon Asia Tao Pure Heart Religious Traditions Dionysus Osiris Oceania

Author:Simone Weil

“In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.”

Men Light Values Religious Perfect Perfection Absolutes Accomplish Ethical Judged Imperfect Absolutism

Author:T. E. Hulme

“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”

“And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

May Light Eye Heaven Religious Clear Mines Window Ears Blow Ecstasy Organs Sweetness Casting Choir Anthem

Author:John Milton

“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.”

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Book:The Vegetarian Epicure

Source: The Vegetarian Epicure

“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”

Has Beens States Light Government Loses Church Religious Groups Policy Capacity Tradition Performances Criticize Ethical Unjust Cozy

Author:Edd Doerr

“I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.”

Knows Men Littles Light Religious Effort Conditions He Man Supreme Unbelief

Book:Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

Source: Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

“Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist.”

Ifs World Light Community Religious Views Theology Make Sense Revelations Indispensable Pretentiousness Religious Community

Author:Cornel West

“The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.”

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Author:David Barton

“I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My... Self. Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there. With Truth. And Light. And Love.”

Inspirational Self Light Purpose Religious Creation Son Products Daughter And Love My Daughter My Son Light And Love

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!”

Men Believe Children Reason Stories Light Faces Science Turns Individual Peace Religious Walks Modern He Man Independent Silent Don't Believe Your Face Compassionate Oppressors

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.”

Inspirational Light Christian Religious Sin Walks Darkness Holy Scripture Orthodox Rays Deprived Holy Scriptures

Author:Saint John Chrysostom