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But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Forgiveness
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Good & Evil
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Freedom
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), PrefaceIn context
- Morality
I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XVIIIn context
There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Comedy
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts, rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Character
Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context
- Christianity
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Freedom
- Patriotism
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Art
- Freedom
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXXIXIn context
They were trying to save their souls⁠—and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXIIIIn context
The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience⁠—in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Economics
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter VIIn context
- Morality
Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), Second Part, XXVIIn context
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity