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Religious literature

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

James George Frazer

1922

★ 0.8

Scripture · Religious literature

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Matthew 19:6 · 60

★ 0.9

Religious literature

The thread on which the different good qualities of human beings are strung as pearls, is the fear of God. When the fastenings of this fear are unloosed, the pearls roll in all directions, and are lost one by one.

Orchot Tzaddikim

1499

★ 1.0

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

1834

★ 1.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Leviticus 19:18 · 1405 BC

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.

Genesis 3:1

1405 BC

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea, 8:7

710 BC

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

Isaiah 22:13

681 BC

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Psalm 71:12

450 BC

★ 1.1

Religious literature

Even women and children and those with no aptitude for speculation can attain to a complete religion, for all men are on an equal footing as far as knowledge derived from the senses is concerned. Praised be God who in his wisdom ordered things thus.

933

★ 1.1

Religious literature

The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings.

1168

★ 1.1

Religious literature

1570

★ 1.1

Religious literature

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

1570

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici · 1643

★ 1.1

Religious literature

You will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.

Reflections on the Love of God · 1833

★ 1.1

Religious literature

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy · 1908

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are.

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

1970

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9

1405 BC

★ 1.2

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