Religion
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
- Josef Beran, cardinal
- Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
- Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
- Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
- Tomáš Halík, catholic theologian, sociologist
- Tomáš Špidlík, cardinal, thinker
- František Tomášek, cardinal
- Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
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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)
“Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“I read ... an article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children to be skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)