Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
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