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.
Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.
You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.
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