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“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.”

Knows Long Has Beens Religion Secret Dangerous Danger Worship Developing Republic Extremism Garage Basements Mosques Secret Places Clandestine Places Of Worship

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.”

People Ifs Whole Certain Religion Secret Intimacy

Book:Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

Source: Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”

Mind Religion Jesus Left Secret Christianity Too Much Sweet Balance Method Intuition Catholicism Great Power Left Out Protestantism Reasonableness

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”

Mind Religion Secret Principles Depends Spring Intelligent Regard Method Fortune Terror Accidents Melancholy Alarms Apprehension Recourse Enquiry Diffidence

Book:An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”

Knows Firsts Made Religion Secret England Surprise London Passing Passings Fixed Gestures Towers Electricity Monument Traveller Newness

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”

Self Wanted Law Religion Women Secret Happened Birth Dignity Essence Add Accidents Accepted Chosen Symbols Distinction Meaningless Brotherhood Judaism Hood Stigma Yoke Initiation Kosher

Author:Jessie Sampter