Verse/religion

Famous quotes containing the words verse and/or religion:

    Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
    Immortal youth to mortal maids.
    Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)