“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.” WayWantShouldHas BeensSpiritualCertainCoursesBeliefCausesReligiousPayMoralBloodShareAtheismMankindTearsComfortImportancePassionateConvictionJustifyIntensityReligious BeliefSuperstitiousObservanceRefreshmentsEntrusting Book:The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.” WarFeelingsBlackReligiousWhiteBloodCenturyPositionPassionateAriseShedGood And BadReligious Wars Author:Umberto Eco
“What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you.” WayLittlesCausesReligiousMissingMinesCommitmentPassionateJewBackgroundsDrsFuryTestosteroneDefenseless Author:David Lee Roth
“Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.” ArtReligiousMembersPassionateWorthyProseReligious FaithStylistNewmanPascal Author:Louis Auchincloss
“Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.” FaithReligiousPassionateConvictionUncertaintyHolding On Author:Soren Kierkegaard