Religion
- Albert of Riga (Albert von Buxthoeven, 1165–1229), Bishop of Riga
- Alexy II of Moscow (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929–2008), Patriarch of Moscow
- John Christian Bechler (1784-1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
- Anna Hedvig Büll (1887–1981), Christian missionary
- Hermann of Dorpat (1163–1248), first Bishop of Dorpat
- Hermann Wesel (died 1563), ecclesiastic and the last Bishop of Dorpat
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the philosophers celebrate in vain. And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)