Religion
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
- Josef Beran, cardinal
- Petr Chelčický, thinker, religious reformer
- Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer
- Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
- Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
- Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
- Tomáš Halík, catholic theologian, sociologist
- Tomáš Špidlík, cardinal, thinker
- František Tomášek, cardinal
- Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“There is not a greater paradox in nature,—than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.”
—Richard Chase (b. 1914)