religious quotes

Thereisa species of personcalleda'ModernChurchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.2, ch.4.

Today educated people look upon traditional religious tiesöCatholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Jewishöas matters of social pedigree. It is only art that they look upon religiously.

-Wolfe,Tom (Thomas Kennerley)
  'TheWorship of Art: Notes on the New God', in Harper's, Oct.

Yes, the labour movement was truly religious, like Judaism itself. It was one of those things you believed in forall mankind and didn't care about fora second inyour own life.

-Wolfe,Tom (Thomas Kennerley)
  The Bonfire of theVanities, ch.8.

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