“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.” KnowsMenMeanWould BeAbleReligiousFictionPoetLimitsEternalPunishmentFixedWoeResistingMenace Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
“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.” RealitySeemsCertainValuesFeltReligiousConditionsStageDivineLimitsPerfectionBoundsAcceptedFestivalsNoveltyConvenienceEccentricPredecessorsProfaneMelodramaIrresponsibility Author:Laura Riding
“To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.” DifferentEndsReasonOrderReligiousMoralIssuesObjectsTypeLimitsIntellectualCommitmentIdealsAimFundamentalsPursueConcreteFaithfulnessCoercion Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.” HeartTurnsReligiousPrayerPowerfulLimitsQueensVirgin MaryBlessed Mother Author:Maximilian Kolbe
“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.” IfsWantHelpingGrowthReligiousPrinciplesEconomyEconomicLimitsAssetsFarmsLimitlessThyselfNeighbour Author:Wendell Berry
“People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.” PeopleShouldChristianValuesChurchReligiousAcceptingLimitsNotionSquaresReligious Values Author:Lloyd Billingsley