![Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.](/assets/img/quote-photos/offerings-to-propitiate-the-dead-then-were-regarded-as-belonging-to-the-class-of.jpg)
Related Quotes
religious lying moving
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. Bobby Fischer
religious people way
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. Bruce Kent
religious growing-up animal
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! Eddie Vedder
religious believe different
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive. E. O. Wilson
religious groups essentials
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
religious character atheism
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.
religious boxing moments
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity. Don King
religious government care
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. Dwight D. Eisenhower
religious israel people
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values
means thank
Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me. Kelly Clarkson
mean fighting winning
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can. Archibald Cox
mean laughing evil
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. Ayn Rand
mean reality feelings
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
mean thinking way
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
mean enemy religion
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
mean sacrifice wish
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
meaningful jesus struggle
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it. Cesar Chavez
mean fighting enemy
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration. Carl von Clausewitz
sacrifice men self
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.
sacrifice wanted
I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do. Brandy Norwood
sacrifice london monogamy
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? Arthur Schopenhauer
sacrifice meals
Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice. Author unknown
sacrifice thinking
I think I made a lot of sacrifices. Donald Trump
sacrifice men long
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
sacrifice men dozen
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
sacrifice evil victory
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
sacrifice order design
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy. Aleister Crowley