Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Religion Quotes

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A Gothic building engenders true religion.... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Superstition attaches to this life, and religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, and religion to virtue; it is from the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious, and it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these same desires that we are religious.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël