The secret of a man's nature lies in his religion, in what he really believes about this world and his own place in it. 4682 Froude: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years. Vol. ii. Ch. 1. The religion that does not rule the speech is a failure and a fraud. 4683 Washington Gladden: Things Old and New. It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ. 4684 Hugh R. Haweis: Speech in Season. Bk. i. The Instinct of Worship and Praise. Sec. 12. Pleasure. The religious instinct will never be replaced Hugh R. Haweis: Speech in Season. by law or Bk. i. The Sec. 1. The Let men say what they will, Roman Catholicism is a good summer weather religion. 4686 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Travel Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. 4687 Sir Arthur Helps: Brevia. Religion gives a dignity to distress. 4688 James Herrey: Meditations among the Tombs. Religion implies revelation. 4689 Roswell D. Hitchcock: Eternal Atonement. Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service. A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously. 4691 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. II. Fashion. My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences-an inspiration and a life-God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man- the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious 4692 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. II. Fashion. The theory of religion belongs to poetry, and its practice to painting. 4693 Mrs. Jameson: Sketches of Art, Literature, and Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. 4694 Joubert: Pensées. No. 31. (Attwell, Translator.) Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. 4695 Joubert: Pensées. No. 24. (Attwell, Translator.) Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursingmother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty. 4696 Joubert: Pensées. No. 25. (Attwell, Translator.) Religion is the eldest sister of Philosophy; on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. 4697 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. and John Home. David Hume Life and religion are one, or neither is anything: I will not say neither is growing to be anything. Religion is no way of life, no show of life, no observance of any sort. It is neither the food nor medicine of being. It is life essential. 4698 George MacDonald: The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. 61. Religion without joy, - it is no religion. 4699 Theodore Parker: Ten Sermons of Religion. We are religious by nature. Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. II. Human Living religion grows not by the doctrines but by the narratives of the Bible: the best Christian religious doctrine is the life of Christ, and after that the sufferings and deaths of his followers, even those not related in Holy Writ. 4701 Richter: Levana. Second Fragment. Ch. iv. Sec. 38. (A. H., Trans. Bohn edition.) It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. 4702 Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience. 4703 Philip Schaff: Church and State in the United States. II. The American System Compared with Other Systems. Sec 4. Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced. 4704 Philip Schaff: Church and State in the United Religion amongst men appears to me like the learning they get at school. Some men forget all they learned, others spend upon the stock, and some improve it. So some men forget all the religion that was taught them when they were young, others spend upon that stock, and some improve it. 4705 John Selden: Table Talk. Religion. Religion is like the fashion. One man wears his doublet slashed, another laced, another plain; but every man has a doublet. So every man has his religion. We differ about trimming. 4706 John Selden: Table Talk. Religion. In religion, as in friendship, they who profess most are the least sincere. 4707 Sheridan: The Duenna. Act iii. Sc. 3. Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it; if we do not incessantly maintain in the soul this belief in the invisible, this self-devotion, this elevation of desire, which ought to triumph over the low inclinations to which our nature exposes us. 4708 Mme. de Staël: Germany. Pt. iv. Ch. 1. (Wright's revision of Murray's edition, 1814.) The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling. 4709 Mme. de Staël: Germany. Pt. iv. Ch. 6. (Wright's revision of Murray's edition, 1814.) A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. 4710 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circum stances. 4711 REMEDY. Tolstoi: My Religion. Ch. 7. It often happens in morals, as well as in physics, that the remedy is worse than the disease. 4712 James Fenimore Cooper: Miles Wallingford. Ch. 30. REMEMBRANCE - see Memory. The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. 4713 REMORSE. Carlyle Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. Introduction. Ch. 1. That is the bitterest of all, wrong-doing. 4714 George Eliot: Daniel Deronda. Bk. v. Ch. 36. The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. 4715 Seneca: Works. Of Anger. Bk. 3. Ch. 26. (Thomas Lodge, editor.) Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. 4716 Shakespeare: Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4. REPENTANCE - see Forgiveness. Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done, as fear of the ill that may happen to us. 4717 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 80. Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. 4718 Montaigne: Essays. Bk. iii. Ch. 2. (Hazlitt, Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking: I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. An' I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of; I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse; the inside of a church! Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. 4719 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act iii. Sc. 3. God never pardons: his laws are irrevocable, the mind that deserts its better knowledge must suffer. God always pardons; for remorse is penitence, and penitence is new life, and returning peace. 4720 William Smith: Thorndale. Pt. ii. The Development of Society. Sec. 13. Science and Religion. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. 4721 Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. vi. Ch. 2. REPOSE. The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. 4722 REPROACH. Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec. i. True invective requires great imagination. George William Curtis: Harper's Magazine, REPUBLICS -see Government, Slavery, Society. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, -entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad: . . . freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus and trials by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. 4724 Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural Address, REPUTATION - - see Ambition, Authors, Opinion. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. 4725 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth A good name is better than bags of gold. 4726 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 34. (Jarvis, Translator.) The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. 4727 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. i. Bk. iv. Ch. 33 (Jarvis, Translator.) |
