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...fore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, t... ...se are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this world. Few SF writers are religious, let alone Christian. They worship humanity. Many fantasy write... ...ppeared in many online and print venues. She writes ethnic, speculative, and religious writings. She lives in New Y ork’s Hudson V alley with her husb...

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...Nyla runs into the hard facts of life. Her school nativity play turns out to be a pretty ugly affair. It opens up the cracks in the social divides, religious discrimination and dark family secrets. Told with wry humour and compassion for the pain of children, unseen by adults, a complex web of history unfolds underneath the rivalries and small disasters of Nyla's school...

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...el Gabriel. A consolation prize, appearing in only one scene. Why? The answer was a lot more complex than I knew. In fact I had fallen afoul of religious discrimination. It was a late aftertaste of the persecution that had made my ancestors walk all the way across Europe in search of a sanctuary. And although I was only nine years old, my life was inextricably entang...

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... sexual conduct or life and death issues. And while it is often used in a religious sense, such as that God has commanded it, I will use it more in ... ...ants to kill the infidels. Or he might do it because he wants to live in a religious society governed by the religious laws of Sharia. ―It w... ...inals and the pope. Similarly, the values of the people and those of their religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my pa... ...st of us are, most of the time? ―Most humans say they place their religious beliefs primary in their thinking. Religion is an emotional deci... ... Marx saw it as matter--the physical world. 29 Plato, as do the great religious teachers, saw idea as coming first. Those religious sages would ... ...gy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. (14) And further in the same document he wrote, ‗What influen... ...ind few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong i... ...it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: the... ...authority of the bishops and priests who left the church during the Roman persecutions. While other Christians thought that the sacrament of Penance...

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...was only considered a minor hiccup. Snakelex had seen many of these small religious icons on files, which meant nothing to him. As the doctor’s name... ...ded so Godly and inspirational. 62 Unfortunately, the Carter’s travelling religious salesmanship and their fanatical do-gooder reputation reaped man... ... ‘Holy Spirit’ thing was, drew heated discussions at the bar. As Morris’s religious past was public knowledge, many came to him for information to s... ...lla to enter the establishment took real guts, considering she could face persecution from fellow Christians. Anne’s false eyelashes were still touc... ...bless her heart! “What are you on about woman?” Morris was in no mood for religious boloney. “She told us if Jesus was visiting this town, He would p... ...He spoke of the elderly and of the school; someone needed to continue the religious studies where Stella left off. Norma volunteered her services fo...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements t...

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...ACE CE CE CE CE THIS BOOK sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; i... ...ed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reade... ...ed, was one of the most disas- trous and one of the least venerable of all religious gather- ings, and he holds that the Alexandrine speculations whic... ...rticularly necessary to clear them out of the way of those who are seeking religious consolation at this present time of exceptional religious need. H... ...role played by these dogmas in ob- scuring, perverting, and preventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the... ...e heresy had not been washed out of the world for- ever after centuries of persecution in torrents of blood. But whatever the present state of Christe... ... declare that God is not sexual, and that religious passion and insult and persecution upon the score of sexual things are a barbaric inheritance. But... ...sation and hu- miliating display; who seize upon religion and turn it into persecution, and upon beauty to torment it on the altars of some joyless vi... ...ty, with its encrustation and suf- focation in dogmas and usages, its dire persecutions of the faithful by the unfaithful, its desiccation and its unl...

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...friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...ere all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned... ...e supposition. I am an ingenuous enquirer with, I think, some capacity for religious feeling, but neither a prophet nor a saint. On the whole I should... ...ely differ. Most of the great controversies of the world, most of the wide religious differences that keep men apart, arise from this: from difference... ...- istry, or seeks from a witness in a police court, I am, in rela- tion to religious and moral questions an agnostic. I do not think any general propo... ...ear the spontaneous and artistic quality that inheres in all our moral and religious generalizations, I may hope to go on to my confession of faith wi... ...here less driving out into the wilderness. There is less heresy hunt- ing; persecution is frequently reluctant and can be evaded by slight concessions...

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... it was still desolate and inclement near at hand. A spidery cross on ev- ery hill-top marked the neighbourhood of a religious house; and a quarter of... ...ed, and furnished with strict necessaries, a crucifix, a bust of the late Pope, the imi- tation in French, a book of religious meditations, and the Li... ...the chapter-house, through the vestry, where the brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board – nam... ...ent. And next after this, the tongue is the great divider. I am almost ashamed to pursue this worldly criticism of a religious rule; but there is yet ... ...y used both by simple Father Apollinaris and astute Fa- ther Michael; and the good Irish deacon, when he heard of my religious weakness, had only patt... ... are narrow in religious judg- ments, and more filled with zeal than charity, what was I to look for in this land of persecution and reprisal – in a l... ...Camisards. It was here that the war broke out; here that those southern Covenanters slew their Archbishop Sharp. The persecution on the one hand, the ... ... the Church; and not a thought was changed in the heart of any upright Protestant. Now the head and forefront of the persecution – after Lamoignon de ... ..., or Carsphairn, in isolated farms or in the manse, serious Presby- terian people still recall the days of the great persecution, and the graves of lo...

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...y the inhabitants at large, the abbe did good with- out inquiring into the religious opinions of those he ben- efited. His parsonage, with scarcely fu... ...cyclope- dists, in the orators of the Gironde, in the men of a period when religious ideas were almost dead, men who called them- selves deists and we... ...ing way. “I shall always hate hypocrites, as much after as before I became religious. I have done good to them all, and I asked no gratitude; but not ... ...ron,’” he said, imitating Ursula’s in- fant speech, “I wish to see whether religious sentiment is inborn or not. Therefore I shall do nothing either f... ... So, from the time she was six years old the little orphan lived under the religious influence of the abbe, just as she had already come under the edu... ...ula through the legal care and ability of Bongrand started the smouldering persecution which up to this time had laid in Minoret’s breast as a dumb de... ... his victim from Nemours, the other which gave Ursula the strength to bear persecution, the cause of which was for a certain length of time undiscover... ...for she was really in danger of death from the hor- ror of this mysterious persecution. Feeling that some infer- nal hand had plunged her into the mir... ...by Ursula and himself and his mother, had taken steps to put an end to the persecution. The armistice was not of long duration, however. When the doct...

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...e and intelligent approved; and those who had the appropriate—that is, the religious interest—confessed that it was practically successful. From whom,... ...lace next week. Or again, if it should never take place, perhaps it may be religious care- lessness on the part of the parish. Many parishes notorious... ...pathetic groans arose: the patron was an oppressor: the parish was un- der persecution: and the poor clergyman, whose case was the most to be pitied, ... ...upposed by the fiction of the case to be in league with his patron for the persecution of a godly parish; whilst in reality the godly parish was perse... ...s reaction in 1660), and secondly, that in 1688-9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large e... ...great sacrifices, whether called for or not, argue a great strength in the religious principle at that era. Yet the decay of external religion towards... ...ith religion. They could not be kept separate; and the favor shown even by religious people to such partisan zealots as Dr. Sacheverell, evidenced, an... ...tically; for they denounced the noble duke’s refusal of land as an act of ‘persecution;’ and upon this principle—that, in a county where his grace was... ...awful scruples of conscience, and through many centuries, misery and legal persecution, have maintained a still more impassable gulf between the Jews ...

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...dwelt an old French refugee, by name Mr. Pastoureau, one of those whom the persecution of the Hugue- nots by the French king had brought over to this ... ... had been banished, the Prince of Orange was on the throne, and the direst persecutions of those of the Catholic faith were apprehended by my lady, wh... ...” “Y ou hanged as many of ours,” interposed Harry; “and, for the matter of persecution, Father Holt told me that a young gentleman of Edinburgh, eight... ...and solemnly asked pardon for his errors.” “Faith! there has been too much persecution on both sides: but ’twas you taught us.” “Nay, ’twas the Pagans... ...oper in the regiment: and he swore Harry to secrecy too, which vow the lad religiously kept, until he found that officers and privates were all taken ... ...r; not that any fault attaches to my lord, who is one of the best and most religious men in this king- dom.” And very likely she believed so. ’Tis str... ...ingle person, who is not very likely in a condition even to understand the religious message whereof the priest is the bringer—being uneducated, and l... ... had been driven out of his native country at the time of the Protes- tant persecutions there, and who came to Cambridge, where he taught the science ...

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...nity, which in that case is not only superseded as an idle repetition of a religious system already published, but also as a criminal plagiarism. Nor ... ...he real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of the generation between the crucifixion and th... ...litude. Deep grief, deep love, how naturally do these ally themselves with religious feeling! and all three—love, grief, religion—are haunters of soli... ...r different: there the contempt is wooed as a serviceable ally and tool of religious hypocrisy. But to me, at that era of life, it formed the main gua... ...th of No- vember,) irritated his martial propensities. Some of these being religious festivals, seemed to require of us an extra hom- age, for which w... ... Bath. This promise was never fulfilled; but not for any want of clamorous persecution on my part addressed to my brother’s wearied ear and somewhat c... ...ple, that they were destined to an early death; and, lastly, the incessant persecutions of their mother. This lady belonged, by birth, 82 Thomas de Q... ...enged the wounds offered to her pride; that father, who had tolerated this persecution; she it was, he it was, that by the altered glances of her haun... ...iginal and secret name of the belea- guered city; and this, therefore, was religiously concealed. 100 Thomas de Quincey 13 Hamlet, Act v., scene 1. ...

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...t, and the entire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on the part of... ...y all have not only won equality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and ad... ... the facts of my experience, to help me, I was equal to a contest with the religious advocates of slavery, whether among the whites or among the color... ... blindness, in this matter, is not confined to the former. I have met many religious col- ored people, at the south, who are under the delusion that G... ...ances. CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII R R R R Religious N eligious N eligious N eligious N eligious Natur atur atur atur ... ...ject of resisting my master, had suf- fered a serious shock, by the savage persecution to which I had been subjected, and my hands were no longer tied... ...ention, here, the name of this man; for it might, even now, subject him to persecution, although the offenses were committed more than twenty years ag... ... and women for their noble daring, in willingly subject- ing themselves to persecution, by openly avowing their par- ticipation in the escape of slave... ..., and legs to the lame.” This brave and devoted man suffered much from the persecutions common to all who have been prominent bene- factors. He at las...

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...ne, for I myself have never appeared at court, and have only taken part in religious wars as a volunteer; I speak of Monsieur de Treville, who was for... ...le,” said the king; “listen to him! Would not one say he was speaking of a religious community? In truth, my dear Captain, I have a great mind to take... ...stracted by your theological studies, inspire your servant, Bazin, a mild, religious man, with a profound respect; but for me, who am without any sett... ...men who had not been driven from her by the jealousy of the king or by the persecutions of Richelieu. Anne of Austria took two steps forward. Buckingh... ...life, the most in- contestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution. The army, I will answer for it, will be but little pleased at ... ...s conversation with the stranger of Meung, related to his young tenant the persecutions of that monster, M. de Laffemas, whom he never ceased to desig... ... it!” cried D’Artagnan; “it will make a little change.” “Not so, for it is religious,” replied Aramis; “it is theology in verse.” “The devil!” said D’... ... of joy at the sight of the seal, kissed the superscription with an almost religious respect, and opened the epistle, which contained what follows: # ... ... but the favor of the queen was at the present time an additional cause of persecution, and her protection, as it was known, protected badly—as witnes...

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...of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinion what- ever on the religious position of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire ... ...en authorized by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier u... ...ity amongst all the shameless de- vices of London swindlers, had read with religious fidelity every word of this tale, so thoroughly life-like, surren... ...on, in society? All readers of Bishop Jeremy Taylor* must be aware of that religious Lady Carbery, who was the munificent (and, for her kindness, one ... ...tlement had extinguished the earldom. But to me, who saw revived an- other religious Lady Carbery, distinguished for her beauty and accomplishments, i... ...re, from all necessity for degrad- 113 Thomas de Quincey ing vigilance or persecution, this demand does, in effect, operate beneficially to the feeli... ...ere. We do not think so much of that sincerity which affronted the fear of persecution; because, after all, the searching persecutions were rare and i... ...er that was not rigorously domestic; whilst in facing the contingencies of persecutions that might arise under the rapid succession of changing empero... ...n to this sylvan sanctuary, when stung to madness by Turkish insolence and persecution, would take place about the era of the Restoration (of our Char...

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...m through Shap, Penrith, Carlisle. Probably they were seeking to elude the persecution of the stage-coaches, which, for the last thirty hours, had bee... ...HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE IT IS SOMETIMES SAID, that a religious messenger from God does not come amongst men for the sake of teac... ... mission. The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether— overlaid and confo... ...in its strongest light, when we recur to the fact of his astonishment at a religious princess refusing to confer a bishoprick upon one that had treate... ...on to record his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main... ...of death than that of life. This expresses rudely the character of awe and religious horror investing the Greek theatre. But to my own feeling the dif... ... up within our own memories, unsupported by a grand traditional history of persecutions— conflicts—and martyrdoms, lurking moreover in blind al- leys,... ...hasing and sur- mounting another, or of abysses that swallowed up abysses. Persecutions of this class oftentimes are amongst the symp- toms of fever, ...

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...is it necessary to furnish any detailed account of our author’s political, religious, and philosophic axioms and systems, his paradoxes and his errors... ... have pursued; but it should be observed that though M. de Pontverre was a religious man, he was not a virtuous one, but a bigot, who knew no virtue e... ...lar instances: find J. J. Rousseau of six years old, converse with them on religious subjects at seven, and I will be answerable that the experiment w... ... being invited to dinner with Count Picon, Governor of Savoy, who was very religious, he arrived before it was ready, and found his excellency busy wi... ... the gospel being the same for every Christian, and the only difference in religious opinions the result of the explanations given by men to that whic... ...principle, so social and pacific, and which has brought upon me such cruel persecutions, it followed that, if I wished to be a citizen of Geneva, I mu... ...o the latter until a long time after his enmity had been declared, and the persecutions he brought upon me at Geneva and elsewhere. I soon suppressed ... ...ly. You are not unac- 482 The Confessions quainted with the nature of the persecutions he suffers, and you join the voice of an old friend to that of... ...ending upon my integrity and innocence, and thinking myself happy, let the persecution which awaited me be what it would, to be called to the honor of...

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... I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the sak... ...d and energy, Brigitte had one of those natures which, under the hammer of persecution, gather themselves together, become compact and powerfully resi... ...spaper, the manager of which was the famous Cerizet, so celebrated for the persecutions he met with, un- der the Restoration, on account of his attach... ...h a ministerial journal of course did him harm. ‘If it had not been for my religious principles,’ he said to me, ‘I should have thrown myself into the... ...d had purchased one of those large and sumptuous habitations which the old religious orders built about the Sorbonne, and as Thuillier mounted the bro... ...uses now swarm with tenants and boarders, on the site of so many noble and religious buildings, and why such mud and dirty trades and poverty should h... ...lavie. He kept her floating between her heart and her moral sense, between religious sentiments and this mysterious passion. 124 The Lesser Bourgeois... ...d all those who came to beg under the arcades of the church, safe from the persecutions of the police and be- neath the protection of the beadle and t... ...ndred pages might afford a—slightly intriguing woman sufficient ground for persecution.” “I see it all, madame, I understand it!” cried la Peyrade, wi...

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...her, even if he should consent, that Mr. Henry would certainly refuse. Non vi sed sæpe cadendo was a favourite word of his; and no doubt this quiet pe... ...ght of the Chevalier’s, and all the more because the tenor of his narrative (set aside a few flourishes) strikes me as highly ingenuous. CHAPTER IV PE... ... as “her bonny laddie,” quoting pedlar’s poetry, and, as I receive the story, even seeking to weep upon his neck. I own I rubbed my hands over this pe... ...arded lion. “You said you would hear me,” I continued. “What you do not know, what you should know, one of the things I am here to speak of, is the pe... ...y the pathetic portions of that work. I would retort upon him with pas- sages out of the Bible, which was all my library – and very fresh to me, my re... .... They were now near that quarter of the desert in which the Master him- self must begin to play the part of guide; and using this for a pretext of pe...

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...out Beranger and Eustacie de Ribaumont being man and wife. Every ceremony, religious or domestic, that could render a marriage valid, was gone through... ...g to provide for the Chevalier’s disappointed heir in some commandery of a religious order of knighthood. The Baron’s wife was English. He had, when o... ...t all with the grave, steadfast cast of countenance imparted by unresisted persecution, stood gath- 14 Yo n g e ered round the green mound that serve... ... to shine forth; and though I verily believe what Maitre Gardon says, that persecution is a blessed means of grace, yet it is grievous to expose one’s... ...n in your father’s vexed country, where the Reformed re- ligion lies under persecution. Natheless, being a born liegeman of the King of France, and he... ...mit. There were a large number of these gathered at Paris; for the lull in persecution that had followed the battle of Moncontour had given hopes of a... ...was partitioned into small farms, inhabited by a simple-hearted peasantry, religious and dili- gent, with a fair amount of rural wealth and comfort. T... ...lk, beheld the cluster of stone buildings, substantial as the erections of religious orders were wont to be. Martin found a seat for her, where she mi... ... as it were with penances, processions, and sermons, for which the host of religious or- ders then at Paris had given ample scope; and she was con- st...

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... legend of Memmius. This man, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian... ...All that she would henceforth attempt and that most reverently, not to say religiously was to catch and reflect some of the glory which had been shed ... ...cture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. It strikes us that there is s... ...ng kind of remonstrance which she had now the energy to oppose against his persecution. “You follow me too closely,” she said, in low, faltering ac- c... ...t night, and the ray cheered me, because you lighted it.” “It has for me a religious significance,” replied Hilda qui- etly, “and yet I am no Catholic... ...od. Or we might bow be- fore an artist, who has wrought too sincerely, too religiously, with too earnest a feeling, and too delicate a touch, for the ... ...sures im- mortality to whatever is wrought in it, and therefore makes it a religious obligation to commit no idea to its mighty guard- ianship, save s... ...rder of the Capu- chin; and from many preceding circumstances, such as his persecution of Miriam, they must have seen an obvious con- nection between ...