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Laurence Housman

"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."

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"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."

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"In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!"

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"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."

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"Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life."

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"One Lord, one faith and one baptism."

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"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."

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"Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another."

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"I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity."

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"After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful."

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"If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."

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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
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"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
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"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."
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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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