Hearth/religion

Famous quotes containing the words hearth and/or religion:

    Nor does the man sitting by the hearth beneath his roof better escape his fated doom.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)