Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and…

T. S. Eliot
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Selected Essays, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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