"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 whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."

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Source : William Robertson Smith (2004). “The Prophets of Israel: and their place in history to the close of the Eighth Century B.C.”, p.20, Wipf and Stock Publishers

William Robertson Smith

#Religious Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.”
“I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.”
“It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.”
“And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.”
“There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.”
“We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .while we silence the rebels of the present.”

Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.
“I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.”

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