Eliade Religion Quotes & Sayings

It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected. — Mircea Eliade

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you. — Tom Robbins

We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place
we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else. — Shirley Jackson

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning. — Mircea Eliade

Maybe you just can't wake someone else's dream. — Maggie Stiefvater

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm. — Larry Crabb

My religion: Very seldom do I feel a need for the presence of God. I don't pray and I don't know how to pray. When I enter a church, I try to pray, but I can't tell if I succeed or not. But often I have religious "attacks": the desire for isolation, for contemplation far from other people. Despair. The desire (and the hope) for asceticism. — Mircea Eliade

Hurt my fluffy bunny, will you? The following moments were a red-tinged blur as he took care of the humans who dared hurt his Miranda. The idiot with the flamethrower screamed the loudest when Chase yanked off his arm and beat him with it. When that stopped being fun, he tore out his throat. — Eve Langlais

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. — Glen Cook

I wouldn't trust them skinnies with food advice. — Jim Gaffigan

Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks. — Nicholas Sparks

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night. — Rachel Boston

One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him; — Matthew Henry

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. — Mircea Eliade

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore. — Robin Sharma

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions. — Mircea Eliade

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. — Joe Biden

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning. — Mircea Eliade