T. S. Eliot Quotes

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

The building block of every community is family.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Every church, however local, is holy ground, and equally so.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

Culture more than politics determines the success of the society, but politics can save the culture.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

The prosperity of a people depends upon such facts as the natural wealth of the country in which they live, their social discipline and industrial character, the result of generations, of centuries, it may be, of tradition.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

Civil society begins with the family.

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

Most conservative atheists I know, including myself, have a really healthy respect for the role of religion in society and this country, in particularly.

Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.