This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Faith is the song of life. Woe to him who wishes to rob life of its splendid poetry. The whole mass of prosaic literature and knowledge is of value only when it is founded on the perception of the poetry of life.
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The contribution of religion to the unity of all human beings is made, not in the intellectual but in the spiritual realm.
Susanne Langer, fully Susanne Katherina Langer née Knauth
As soon as religion becomes prosaic or perfunctory art appears somewhere else.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
So long as religion is only faith and outward form, and the religious function is not experienced in our own souls, nothing of any importance has happened.
The essence of religion is the human quest for salvation.
I believe that art is the only way by which an evil man can attain a realm of perfect liberation without becoming an entirely different person. While religion spurns evil men… art permits them to enter its realm, as long as they believe in it.
Ronald Knox, fully Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Whatever else it is - let us be clear about that from the outset - religion is something we belong to, not something which belongs to us; something that has got hold of us, not something we have got hold of.
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Karl Mannheim, alternatively Mannheim Károly
It is clearly untrue that we are automatically progressing and that the Churches and religion ought to hasten to adjust themselves to all the novelties of our age.
A religion would not be worth my adherence if I could live up to it perfectly.
The plainest historical evidence for the effectiveness of religion as a positive social form lies in the history of the Jews.
Ding Ling, pseudonym of Jiǎng Bīngzhī, aka Bīn Zhǐ
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
Nobody ought to be compelled in matters of religion either by law or force.
Religion is about fellowship and community… The task of religion is the maintenance and extension of human community.
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Religion, according to the Hindu, is not compounded of dogmas and creeds. Religion is a way of life in consonance with rationality and Truth. Truth is not and cannot be revealed once and for all - it must ever be a progressive revelation.
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