Schism/religion

Famous quotes containing the words schism and/or religion:

    ““Summer, you are the eucharist of death;
    Partake of you and never again
    Will midnight foot it steeply into dawn,
    Dawn veer into day,
    Nor the praised schism be of year split off year....””
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Religion is an attempt to get an irrefragably safe investment, and this cannot be got, no matter how low the interest, which in the case of religion is about as low as it can be.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)