We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religioussociety is fostered, and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members as citizens, denied.
To regard all religious systems, all sects and churches, as essentially of equal worth and worthiness, is to make of religious profession a matter of mere convenience and conventionality.
In any attempt to analyze a religious system or creed it is pertinent to examine the results of its operation in the lives of its adherents.
Granted that religious profession without morality is but mockery and hypocrisy.
Nevertheless, between the merely ethical and the really religious life, there is vital distinction.
None of us can consistently challenge the vested right of religious associations to choose their own names.
Religious intolerance is inconsistent with democratic government; yet this species of prejudice is manifest even amongst the most progressive nations of the age.
These religious devotees will twirl with a rapidity truly astonishing, making fifty revolutions a minute.
As the excitement increases, they toss their hair, foam at the mouth, scream and seem to give themselves up to the wildest excesses of religious enthusiasm.
At midnight all the church bells in the city began ringing; it was evident that a solemn religious ceremony was about to take place.
These are a singular religious sect; they are anxious to obtain a reputation for superior sanctity, and many of them make pretensions to the performance of miracles.
But we have seen enough of this foolish, useless, so-called religious enthusiasm.
The play of "Hamlet" without its leading character could not be more deficient than a sketch of the life of General Gordon without a careful setting-forth of his religious views.
Gordon hated everything that was not genuine, and of all the shams in life the religious one was to him the worst.
There seems to have been a special bond of sympathy between the brother and sister, and she seems to have been made the recipient of all his confidences, religious and otherwise.
I am lucky in having a very religious captain of the 11th, of the name of Drew; he has on the mantelpiece of his room the 'Priceless Diamond,' which I read before yours arrived.
No writer would be doing justice to Gordon if he failed to deal with his views on the subject of God's Sovereignty, for from the beginning to the end of his religious life he attached the greatest importance to this doctrine.
Gordon had to face a fanatical body of Mohammedans who, rightly or wrongly, looked upon slavery as a religious institution.
Religious party views are always rather difficult to describe, and it will be found that in every party there are some whose minds do not run on partisan lines.
The other Englishman was Colonel Stewart, who, despite his friendship for Gordon, was not in sympathy with him in regard to religious matters.
In religion he was not much more than a stoic philosopher, but he recognized the value of a religious faith among the people and so was glad to encourage them in the maintenance of pagan altars and temples, many of which he built.
The old religious feelings of the Jews against any representation of the human figure, especially when, as in this case, it tended to idolatry, was roused to the utmost; and their remonstrance had to be heeded.
Not even the imposing religious ceremonies, conducted to appease the gods, could quiet the popular outcries.
We shall then discredit them as anti-social, as we have discredited religious fanaticism, and build up a controlling Sittlichkeit.
That Patriotism does indeed transcend all morality, all religious sanctions as we have heretofore known them, can be put to a very simple test.
The opposing group is a Balkanised Europe of irreconcilable national rivalries, incapable, because of those rivalries, of any prolonged common action, and taking a religious pride in the fact of this incapacity to agree.
A century or two since it was threatened by ideas and passions which gathered round religious dogma.
The unconscious portion, the wonderful fragrance of his earlyreligious poems, which were entirely emotional, soon dissipated.
He constructed an infinite number of pious verses, verses for saints' days, religious emblems, and compiled volumes of poetry for Catholic publishers.
He has wrought the most beautiful religiouspoems of Catholicism, and at the same time has won the crown of all pornographic works with perverse and indecent poems.
The effort resulted in pompous, well-constructed religious poems, plump like botched Roman churches.
In general it is almost a necessity among poets that poetic feeling should be transmuted into religious feeling.
Verlaine had hardly been released before he tried to convert Rimbaud to this religious life in order to link their lives anew.
Amongst the Lamas there are also religious and secular dances performed at their feasts or fairs, the religious dances by the Lamas, the secular by men and women together, or by each sex separately.
The circle dance, for instance, after being performed several times would necessarily become a part of the religious customs or ceremony, and form a part of the ordinary religious observance.
In the religious dances each man wears a gigantic headpiece, which comes down as far as the shoulders.
This would be done by a number of people on the same occasion, and would terminate by a dance round the church or other spot associated with sacred or religious character.
Religious processions went with song and dance to the Egyptian temples, and Plato said all dancing ought to be thus an act of religion.
But in speaking of matters of religious significance, it is important to bear in mind that we are not dealing with the religion of the Church.
One child on the opposite side, facing them, says-- Have you been to a religious church?
Let it be noted, too, that the circle has deep religious significance not entirely absent from the customs of comparatively later times, among which the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" is the most generally known.
It is the only group which developed real religious communities in which men and women participated, extensive welfare schemes existed and class differences were discouraged.
But from now on, they began to organize in guilds of an essentially religious character, as similar guilds in other parts of Asia at the same time also did.
For the court clique this was more a matter of pastime than of religious controversy.
This sect was influenced by Iranian Mazdaism on the one side and by certain ideas from Lao Tzŭ; on the other side; and these influences were superimposed on popular rural as well as, perhaps, local tribal religious beliefs and superstitions.
Some groups had a religious tinge; others declared their intention to restore the emperors of the Sung dynasty.
The basic religious text of this group, the "Book of the Great Peace" has been studied by W.
As merchants on their trips which lasted often several years, did not want to go without religious services, they turned to Buddhist priests as well as to priests of Near Eastern religions.
In the more distant parts of the realm were more or less independent lords, who recognized the ruler only as their supreme lord and religious leader.
At bottom the movement, like all similar ones before it, was not religious but social; and it produced a great response from the peasants.
Many of the trustees, also, have their religious meetings at the Lodging-houses, which they individually lead and take charge of during the winter.
The French administration does not cease with paying the board of these foundlings in their country homes; it looks carefully after their clothing, their education, their religious instruction, and even their habits of economy.
The religious education of each child is imparted in Sabbath Schools, in Churches, or Mission Schools, and its own home.
The modern charts and books are extremely ingenious in giving religious lessons through the senses.
We propose to give to these work, and to bring them under religious influence.
In any comprehensive view, the only hopeful reform through society must begin with childhood, basing itself on a change of circumstances and on religious influences.
The priests and demagogues do not, of course, care anything about the simple prayer and the reading of a few verses of Scripture, which are now our sole religious school exercises.
The Association of ladies which we called together for labors among this population happened to be composed mainly of Unitarians, a religious body that has always felt a peculiar interest in the moral condition of our German poor.
A great deal of stress, of course, was laid onreligious and moral instruction.
I obtained for her, from my friends among the religious authorities (notably the Mufti, who was most strenuous in her cause) the post of head cleaner at the new mosque.
But here again by the Mercy of Allah suggestions of the most lucrative sort perpetually occurred to my religious soul.
Yet I am glad to say that I never neglected my religious duties, that I prayed with fervour and regularity, and that I had a singular faith in the loving kindness of my God.
I pretended to be so absorbed in my contemplation of divine things as not to notice them: for to keep them waiting secured religious as well as worldly respect.
Such a judgment is essential to any commercial success, but especially to success with people in a state ofreligious exaltation.
We all rose; the audience and the Councillors and the orator himself united in chanting that portion of the Koran which details Mahomet’s visit to the moon (a religious exercise dear to this folk).
We had started in to settle questions affecting the religious future of humanity, and should have been allowed to accomplish our mission.
His efforts were often frustrated by the schemes of smaller men, with their appeals to racial prejudice and religious intolerance.
This incident belongs to the religious history of Montreal, but Hon.
Let me say to you that you should never allow your religious convictions to be affected by anything which appears to you an injustice.
Let me ask of you never to allow your religious convictions to be affected by the acts of men.
Can't people understand that your motive in helping Ananda is a religious one?
He refused to discuss the subject of religious differences.
A 'good heathen's' religion makes the practice of certain sins a religious act.
She was a proud woman, full of energy, just but strict in the performance of duties, religious as well as social.
Carelessness and neglect in the performance of our religious duties.
I undertook not to meddle in anyreligious matters.
The lonely woman was giving up her marital rights to another for the sake of her husband's religious prejudices that she respected and believed in thoroughly.
It is more difficult to attack than the old intolerance; it is elusive, shifty, the outcome of the Brahmanical facility of adaptation which is the invariable resource of the Hindu philosopher in every religious innovation.
The fervent religious instinct of the Hindu sustains him in circumstances where a less religious temperament would give way.
Others have suffered for their religious opinions before now.
Native states with their native officials were even still further behind than British India, opposingreligious reform with strong prejudiced conservatism.
He was aware that he could not join the family circle, eat with them, take part in the daily religious worship conducted by his father as head of the house before the chief meal of the day.
The Hindus absorb and orientalise theories that ought to deal their social and religious system a death blow.
The Hindus are a religious people, with strong cravings that must be satisfied.
This is shown clearly by the absence of any desire on the part of my boys to shirk their religious duties," said Wenaston.
A new verb, "sternbaldisieren," was coined to parody a new movement in German art toward the medieval, religious spirit.
In 1804 he removed to Cologne, where he entered with great eagerness into the work of re-discovering the medieval Lower Rhenish School of religious art and Gothic architecture.
I am not afraid of any bad consequence to society; for who will persevere for a long course of years in a distinguished discharge of religious duties, with a view to commit a forgery with impunity?
But I thought, that the gloom of uncertainty in solemn religious speculation, being mingled with hope, was yet more consolatory than the emptiness of infidelity.
A fugitive from heaven and prayer, I mocked at all religious fear, Deep scienced in the mazy lore Of mad philosophy: but now Hoist sail, and back my voyage plough To that blest harbour which I left before.
Talking of a man's resolving to deny himself the use of wine, from moral and religious considerations, he said, 'He must not doubt about it.
Yet there is, probably, a great deal of learning in France, because they have such a number of religious establishments; so many men who have nothing else to do but to study.
Though defective in practice, he was religious in principle; and he did nothing grossly wrong that I have heard[688].
They associate themselves with those who dislike the old establishment, religious and civil.
It provided for the separation of the Crowns of England and Scotland unless security was given to the latter for full religious and commercial independence.
The real religious basis is that he serves God best who serves man best, and the coming of the kingdom of God is concomitant with the coming of the kingdom of man.
The Neo-Platonists taught that these occult rites were a form of representing philosophic and religious dogmas as if in scenes of common life by living persons, and of shadowing them by ceremonies and processions.
Even Professor Tyndall says: "The facts of religious feeling are to me as certain as the facts of physics.
Hebrew patriarchs desired numerous descendants, and hence the symbolic pillar was well suited to their religious cult.
No man has a right to assume that he is more holy than other men, or that he has authority to exercise religious functions that other men have not.
On the other hand, God may originally have implanted the germs of a common religious thought in the mind of man, and then have adapted his successive revelations to the outworking of those germs.
Our loathing for his selfish and cruel tyranny is tempered with a kind of shuddering pity for that other side of his character;--his gloomy religious mania, the taint inherent in his blood.
For my own part I must frankly confess that such pseudo-religious exhibitions are disagreeable.
The religious ceremony in the fourth act and the Brahmin recitative accompanied by the pizzicati of the bass may be mentioned as an indication of this.
The opera houses are closed on Good Friday, and it used to be the custom to give evening concerts, vaguely termed "Sacred Concerts," because their programmes were made up wholly or in part of religious music.
Some of his religious works were really beautiful, but he had strange obsessions.
Each year brought ten religious cantatas, and each year brought us new surprises in the unexpected variety and impressiveness of the work.
Religious authority was very powerful at the time and forbade it.
Two religious circles, the Cathedral and the Cueva del Rosario, both lay claim to the initiative.
I had written a religious march especially for this event, and the Queen kindly accepted its dedication to her.
And the crowd stood motionless and in an almost religious silence as it listened to the marvel.
No one would dare to describe this work as profane, but whether it is religious or not is a question.
Michel Haydn, Joseph's brother and the author of some highly esteemed religious compositions, has been generally credited with the addition of the vocal parts to the Seven Words.
As it developed and gradually became the most grandiose of the instruments, the organ, with its depth of tone modified and increased tenfold by the resonance of the great cathedrals, took on its religious character.
The culture of the Greeks was the highest form of their vital force; and the product of that culture was not only their imperishable art, but their political, social, and religious organisation and ideals.
The religious teacher may master the principles of his faith, but let him beware how he applies them to the industrial or social conditions of society.
Whatever is true of the religious life is true also of the working life; the two are different aspects of the same vital experience.
Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Uncharitableness unfortunately intrude into religious life too often and too powerfully.
A noise is heard, and the soldiers comment on it and its cause--namely, the religious dissensions of the Jews.
Psychoanalysis has taught us the intimate connection between the father complex and belief in God, and daily demonstrates to us how youthful persons lose their religious belief as soon as the authority of the father breaks down.
It does not seem that Leonardo's life disproves this conception of religious belief.
Among his "prophecies" one finds some things that would perforce offend the sensitive feelings of a religious Christian, e.
There is hardly any doubt that Leonardo had vanquished dogmatic as well as personal religion, and through his work of investigation he had withdrawn far from the world aspect of the religious Christian.
It was asserted of Leonardo's art that he took away the last remnant of religious attachment from the holy figures and put them into human form in order to depict in them great and beautiful human feelings.
It puzzled me, for example, how I was to find the source whence Pascal's taste, both for mathematics and religious philosophy, sprang.
His wife was even more theologically inclined than himself, and appeared anonymously--without anyone having a suspicion of the fact--as a religious authoress.
I found it in the philosophical and religious writings of Sören Kierkegaard, in such works, for instance, as Sickness unto Death.
The present-day Israelites were represented as people who, urged by a stiff-necked wilfulness and obstinacy and almost incomprehensible callousness, clung to the obsolete religious ideal of the stern God in opposition to the God of Love.
