As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. -
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. -
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. -
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. -
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
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- Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.