"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."

Religion, Society, Debate, Drama

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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."

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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."

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"Life in Christ is far richer."

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"O Lord, grant me the grace of endurance, in the race of life."

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"Lord, thank you for the courage to live life."

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"Only God can set the soul in bondage free."

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"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

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"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

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"God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will."

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"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."

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"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."

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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."

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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."

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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."

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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."

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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."

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"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."

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