Mother/religious

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or religious:

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)