Religion
- H.E. Dr. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago (1996)
- H.E. Dr. Terence Cardinal Cooke, former Archbishop of New York (1984, posthumously)
- Sister M. Isolina Ferré (August 11, 1999)
- Dr. Billy Graham (1983)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (June 23, 2004)
- Archbishop Iakovos of America (1980)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1964)
- His Holiness Pope John XXIII (December 6, 1963, posthumously)
- His Holiness Pope John Paul II (June 4, 2004)
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (March 26, 1984)
- Reverend Gardner C. Taylor (August 9, 2000)
- Mother Teresa (1985)
- H.G. The Most Rev. Dr. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town (August 12, 2009)
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”
—Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1932)
“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)
“The great end of all religion ... is to purify our hearts—and conquer our passions—and in a word, to make us wiser and better men—better neighbours—better citizens—and better servants of GOD.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)