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"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
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"But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers."
Religion
"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."
Death
"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
Religion
"This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths."
Being
"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
Religion
"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
Religion
"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
God
"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
Fancy
"The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people."
God
"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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