Quote by Huston Smith
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. An

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. – Huston Smith

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If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable. – Huston Smith

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Rumi
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith

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Religion
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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. – Huston Smith

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Future
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Religion

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft

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Religion

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology? – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Religion

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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Religion

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Havent two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You cant convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. – Kevin Smith

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My favorite color is October. – Author unknown

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October

This is no mere beverage, this glass of beer…. It is the grains of the earth growing in the ground under the blazing sun and the night mists of the plains girdling the planet, and of barley seed grown rich and golden. – Frederic A. Birmingham

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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, Things dont look like that! – David Hockney

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Change