Religion
| Name | Born | Death | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Arinze | 1 November 1932 | — | A Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| William Napolean Barleycorn | 1884 | 1925 | a Spanish Guinean Primitive Methodist missionary and author of the first Bube language primer. He was a member of a prominent Fernandino family. | |
| William Drew Robeson I | July 27, 1844 | May 17, 1918 | The father of Paul Robeson and the minister of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey from 1880 to 1901. | |
| Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi | September 1903 | January 24, 1964 | Beatified by Pope Benedict XVI |
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“The great end of all religion ... is to purify our hearts—and conquer our passions—and in a word, to make us wiser and better men—better neighbours—better citizens—and better servants of GOD.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)