#2,953

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories.
Without the intervention of gods everything becomes boring.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,945

It is not primitive cults that discredit religion, but American sects.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,931

Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,887

The Christian does not pretend that the problems posed by religion have been solved; instead, he transcends them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,835

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,794

My convictions are the same as those of an old woman praying in the corner of a church.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,780

Only religion can be popular without being vulgar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,745

In religious matters the triviality of the objections tends to be more obvious than the fragility of the proofs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441

#2,680

Economic claims, hostility between social classes, religious differences, tend to be mere pretexts for an instinctive appetite for conflict.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,674

The temptation for the churchman is to carry the waters of religion in the sieve of theology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,625

One can only support the weight of this world while on one’s knees.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 424

#2,594

History seems to come down to two alternating periods: a sudden religious experience that propagates a new human type, [and] the slow process of dismantling that type.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,572

The two most insufferable types of rhetoric are religious rhetoric and the rhetoric of art criticism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 413

#2,565

Periods of political stability are periods of religious stability.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 412

#2,551

A cloud of incense is worth a thousand sermons.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,550

Ritualism is the discreet guardian of spirituality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,545

Religious thought does not go forward, like scientific thought, but rather goes deeper.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,516

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion’s case were not just as serious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

#2,504

The psychological study of conversions only produces flowers of rhetoric.
God’s ways are secret.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,487

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment of religious experience.
From an aesthetic experience one returns as from a sighting of numinous footprints.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400