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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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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Communism was meant to be an alternative religion. – David Miliband

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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. – Alfred North Whitehead

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God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? – Martin Buber

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