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In this book, the history of American religion is the history of human actions and human organizations, not the history of ideas (refined or otherwise). But this is not to say that we regard theology as unimportant. To the contrary, we shall argue repeatedly that religious organizations can thrive only to the extent that they have a theology that can comfort souls and motivate sacrifice. In a sense, then, we are urging an underlying model of religious history that is the exact opposite of one based on progress through theological refinement. We shall present compelling evidence that theological refinement is the kind of progress that results in organizational bankruptcy. ~ Roger Finke
Religious History quotes by Roger Finke
A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there. ~ Andrea Bocelli
Religious History quotes by Andrea Bocelli
APOLLYON is an alternative and credible alternative drama about the foundation and emergence of Christianity. ~ Greg Rigby
Religious History quotes by Greg Rigby
It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance ... ~ Neal A. Maxwell
Religious History quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. ~ Madeleine Albright
Religious History quotes by Madeleine Albright
The Christian is a [person] of joy ... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. ~ William Barclay
Religious History quotes by William Barclay
My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm of faith and belief. ~ Randall Balmer
Religious History quotes by Randall Balmer
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' ~ John Drane
Religious History quotes by John Drane
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. ~ George Eliot
Religious History quotes by George Eliot
Still - if I have read religious history aright - faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords, and it is possible - thank Heaven! - to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The raw bacon which clumsy Molly spares from her own scanty store that she may carry it to her neighbour's child to "stop the fits," may be a piteously inefficacious remedy; but the generous stirring of neighbourly kindness that prompted the deed has a beneficent radiation that is not lost. ~ George Eliot
Religious History quotes by George Eliot
The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian's time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V and the Council of Trent. Any book on religious history shows "the"Christian religion as having had two ages of grand thought movements - 0-500 in the East and 1000-1500 in the West.61 But these are two springtimes of two Cultures, and in them are comprised also the non-Christian forms which belong to each religious development. The closing of the University of Athens by Justinian in 529 was not, as is always stated, the end of Classical philosophy - there had been no Classical philosophy for centuries. What he did, forty years before the birth of Mohammed, was to end the theology of the Pagan Church by closing this school and - as the historians forget to add - to end the Christian theology also by closing those of Antioch and Alexandria. Dogma was complete, finished - just as it was in the West with the Council of Trent (1564) and the Confession of Augsburg (1540), for with the city and intellectualism religious creative force comes to an end. So also in Jewry and in Persia, the Talmud was concluded about 500, and when Chosroes Nushirvan in 529 bloodily suppressed the Reformation of Mazdak. ~ Oswald Spengler
Religious History quotes by Oswald Spengler
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands."

Jeffrey R. Holland ~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Religious History quotes by Jeffrey R. Holland
A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these terms, this melancholy is as much a part of our history as our triumphs. ~ Colin Dickey
Religious History quotes by Colin Dickey
When addressing religion in morphology the average person will seek religious texts and otherwise human instruments and tools to explain the Universe or their own spiritual experience. Yet human hands are not paws or clawed. Humans are not quadrupeds so texts for cats is kind of out of the question one might think. ~ Leviak B. Kelly
Religious History quotes by Leviak B. Kelly
Live your best sacred-life.
It is only one-time in history. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious History quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
We often tend to think of the Father as transcendent and far off in heaven; similarly, the Son may seem far removed in history and thus also relatively unknowable. But the Holy Spirit is active within the lives of believers; he is resident within us. He is the particular person of the Trinity through whom the entire Triune Godhead currently works in us. ~ Millard J. Erickson
Religious History quotes by Millard J. Erickson
History is time that won't quit. ~ Suzan-Lori Parks
Religious History quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks
Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
Religious History quotes by Neale Donald Walsch
I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history. ~ George Mead
Religious History quotes by George Mead
This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists above and below the level of personal history. Mysteries of darkness; but the darkness teems with life. Apocalypses of light; and the light shines out as brightly from the flimsy little houses as from the trees, the grass, the blue spaces between the clouds. We do our best to disprove the fact, but a fact it remains; man is as divine as nature, as infinite as the Void. But that's getting perilously close to theology, and nobody was ever saved by a notion. ~ Aldous Huxley
Religious History quotes by Aldous Huxley
So, how's it going? You seeing some art and history or you too busy trying to slap your pecker against anything with a wet spot?" "No, I saw some art. We spent like two hours in the Louvre." "Nice. Two thousand years of priceless works of art and you bust through it in two hours. Eat shit, da Vinci," he said. "Where you heading next? ~ Justin Halpern
Religious History quotes by Justin Halpern
No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty. ~ Isabella Bird
Religious History quotes by Isabella Bird
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual ... In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork. ~ Lester Thurow
Religious History quotes by Lester Thurow
I'm not the only person who carries a lot of assumptions when I read the Bible, and it can be tough to entertain the idea that the Word of God has different perspectives in it. Biblical apologists spend all their time weaving these different viewpoints into a single frame, in an effort that often looks like squids playing Twister: fascinating, appalling, and hard to follow. We've seen what this approach to history can sow: a destructive oversimplification of the Church's past.
Americans treat their national narrative in much this way, too. We simplistically teach a single story in our history classrooms, of brave rebels who left cultures of tyranny and heroically crossed the Atlantic to found a nation built on freedom and justice. When we speak of our national sins, such as the genocide committed on Nation Americans or the brutal, longterm economic extraction of wealth from black bodies via slavery and segregation, we seem to dismiss these troubling matters as things that happened in the remote past but that have been resolved today. ~ Mike McHargue
Religious History quotes by Mike McHargue
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes ... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion. ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Religious History quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor
Its history is an especially rich and intriguing one for women: the great salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave women an intellectual influence and freedom; in the nineteenth century, for the bohemian and the flâneuse pleasure and revolution were a seductive mix; in the mid-twentieth century, Paris spelled freedom for Simone de Beauvoir who set the standard for contemporary feminism in her exhilarating The Second Sex. ~ Catherine Cullen
Religious History quotes by Catherine Cullen
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. ~ George Will
Religious History quotes by George Will
Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas. ~ Michael Meade
Religious History quotes by Michael Meade
History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back. ~ Mohammed Daoud Khan
Religious History quotes by Mohammed Daoud Khan
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. ~ Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Religious History quotes by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions. ~ Adolf Hitler
Religious History quotes by Adolf Hitler
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. ~ Martin Cruz Smith
Religious History quotes by Martin Cruz Smith
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire. ~ John Burgoyne
Religious History quotes by John Burgoyne
If he didn't walk away when I voiced what I wanted: him.
Not the High Lord, not the most powerful male in Pyrthian's history. Just ... him. The person who had sent music into that cell; who had picked up that knife in Amarantha's throne room to fight for me when no one else dared, and who had kept fighting for me every day since, refusing to let me crumble and disappear into nothing. ~ Sarah J. Maas
Religious History quotes by Sarah J. Maas
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature. ~ C. Wright Mills
Religious History quotes by C. Wright Mills
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religious History quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
It may have been due to the effect of the gordo blanco on my cognitive functions, but I was suddenly overwhelmed by an extraordinary feeling - not of satisfaction but of absolute joy. It was the feeling I had in the Museum of Natural History and when I was making cocktails. We started dancing again, and this time I allowed myself to focus on the sensations of my body moving to the beat of the song from my childhood and of Rosie moving to the same rhythm. ~ Graeme Simsion
Religious History quotes by Graeme Simsion
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Religious History quotes by Margaret Thatcher
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance. ~ T.C. Boyle
Religious History quotes by T.C. Boyle
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Religious History quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. ~ Salman Rushdie
Religious History quotes by Salman Rushdie
White nationalist, white supremacis feel like this is a watershed moment in the history of white supremacy in which something that had been cordoned off to the kind of white supremacist back waters, an idea like banning all Muslims from coming to the country is going to be . ~ Chris Hayes
Religious History quotes by Chris Hayes
At paces that might stun and dismay the religious jogger, the runners easily kept up all manner of chatter and horseplay. When they occasionally blew by a huffing fatty or an aging road runner, they automatically toned down the banter to avoid overwhelming, to preclude the appearance of show boating (not that they slowed in the slightest). They in fact respected these distant cousins of the spirit, who, among all people, had some modicum of insight into their own days and ways. But the runners resembled them only in the sense that a puma resembles a pussy cat. It is the difference between stretching lazily on the carpet and prowling the jungle for fresh red meat. ~ John L. Parker Jr.
Religious History quotes by John L. Parker Jr.
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things. ~ James Joll
Religious History quotes by James Joll
The shift from orality to literacy and on to electronic processing engages social, economic, political, religious and other structures. These, however, are only indirect concerns of the present book, which treats rather the differences in 'mentality' between oral and writing cultures. ~ Walter J. Ong
Religious History quotes by Walter J. Ong
What are called the middle schools is still very unsatisfactory. Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other, and not at all - or at least only very insignificantly - interested in knowing when the crown of his fathers was placed on the brow of some monarch. These are certainly not looked upon as important matters. ~ Adolf Hitler
Religious History quotes by Adolf Hitler
While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of madness ~ Jeremy Griffith
Religious History quotes by Jeremy Griffith
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles. ~ Richard Flanagan
Religious History quotes by Richard Flanagan
Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design. ~ George W. Bush
Religious History quotes by George W. Bush
Rock and roll is my religion. ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Religious History quotes by Ozzy Osbourne
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy
Religious History quotes by Tom Clancy
The history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone. ~ Martin Luther
Religious History quotes by Martin Luther
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history. ~ Bill Bryson
Religious History quotes by Bill Bryson
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history. ~ Jean Cocteau
Religious History quotes by Jean Cocteau
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him ~ H.L. Mencken
Religious History quotes by H.L. Mencken
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