The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that religious feelings stem from a profound sense of dependence on something greater than oneself.
Friedrich Schleiermacher suggests that at the core of religious emotions is an awareness of our vulnerability and the absolute dependence on a higher power or divine entity. This feeling of reliance can lead to deep spiritual experiences and a sense of connection to the universe, which defines the essence of religious sentiment.
In practice
In a discussion about the role of faith in overcoming life's challenges.
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being
Straight ahead you can't go very far.
Take her away; for she hath lived too long, _x000D_ _x000D_ To fill the world with vicious qualities.
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.
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