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Quote by John Ruskin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true acti

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – John Ruskin

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin

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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. – Natalie Portman

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. – G.K. Chesterton

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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? – Charles de Secondat

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