The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile... →
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply... →
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the... →
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... →
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage... →
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a... →
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our... →
Ralph W. Sockman
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings... →
Raymond Sokolov
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as... →
Georg Solti