To lose the sacred is to lose the center of human existence. - Mircea Eliade

"To lose the sacred is to lose the center of human existence."

Mircea Eliade Faith

Historian of Religion Romanian 1907–1986

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"Faith is believing when you can't see."

"You have to believe in something, or you'll fall for anything."

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