Religion
- Herman (Aav) (1878–1961), head of Finnish Orthodox Church
- Jaan Kiivit, Jr (1940–2005), archbishop
- Juhan Leinberg (1812–1885), founder of a religious sect (the Maltsvetians)
- Kuno Pajula (born 1924), archbishop
- Andres Põder (born 1949), archbishop
- Alexey Ridiger (Patriarch Alexius II, 1929–2008), head of Orthodox Church (Russia)
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)
“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)