Life is a single dwelling, not a duplex nor an apartment house. One cannot pursue academic learning six days a week and religion the seventh, keeping them neatly tucked away from each other in separate compartments. The human mind, like the body, seeks to maintain an equilibrium, a functioning of all parts in a harmonious whole. Man craves wholeness and calls things wholesome which contribute to this ideal. Therefore, religion must make peace with a man's total life-experience if it is to retain a wholesome place in his living and thinking. Religion is not something apart from life; it is an integral part of human relations, moral aspiration, and everyday life and thought.
-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 8)
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