Decline Of Religion Quotes

#1. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Keep in mind, we are past the age of enlightenment. This is past reason. We are pretty deep into modern history and the decline of religion. This is when nature itself has been stripped bare of its cozy personality and we all feel homeless in our natures as well.

"The Limits Of The World

Diane Williams

#3. Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

David Beckham

#4. The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Geoffrey Beene

#5. Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.

Baltasar Gracian

#7. [Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

Dick Cheney

#8. If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate.

Tim Kreider

#9. Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Barbara Johnson

#10. We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Lori Lansens

#11. You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Cyril Clarke

#12. Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

Dean Koontz

#14. The decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions -

Will Durant