A Quote by Aristophanes
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
King Khan and the Shrines may look and sound bizarre, but don't feel left out; it's not an exclusive club.
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even if it’s tainted with misunderstandings and delusions, if the people themselves believe in it, the past is the truth to them. And, if you base your actions or your life around it, in a way, it’s a type of god itself.
As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.
We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
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