For me sport was a religion… with religious sentiment. – Pierre de Coubertin
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. – Ernestine Rose
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
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. – Thomas Aquinas
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. – Edward T. Hall
