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Letter "R" » Religion
«Where knowledge ends, religion begins.»
«When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Conquest,
Missionaries,
Religion
| Keywords:
Africa, bible, came, closed, land, missionaries, opened, Open Your Eyes, pray, The Bible, The Land
«Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| About:
Life,
Religion
| Keywords:
appallingly, austere, boiled, boil over, colorful, curried, curries, curry, dramatic, dull, emotional, intense, monotonous, rice, unimportant, varied
«When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within»
«When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit»
Author: David Lloyd George
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
circumcise, circumcised, circumcising, threw
«When you can get people to believe in virgin birth and resurrection of the dead as reality - well, what can one say»
Author: Grace McGarvie
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
resurrection, resurrection from the dead, resurrection of the dead, Virgin, Virgin Birth
«When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.»
«When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
a people, charge, cliff, cliffs, gathering, gatherings, intermingle, intermingled, intermingling, invulnerability, speed, suffused, suffuses, suffusing
«When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. (Isaiah 57:13)»
Author: Bible
| About:
Christianity,
Company,
Religion,
Vanity
| Keywords:
companies, deliver, Holy Land, Holy Mountain, inherit, Isaiah, The Holy Mountain
«Where mystery begins religion ends.»
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