Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religio
Ernest Renan
Man makes holy what he believes.
Ernest Renan
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal
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God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
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