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The miracles of healing, important as they were, were not an end in themselves. They did not constitute the highest good of the messianic salvation. This fact is illustrated by the arrangement of the phrases in Matthew 11:4-5. Greater than deliverance of the blind and the lame, the lepers and the deaf, even than raising of the dead, was the preaching of the good news to the poor. This “gospel” was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor. ↗

— George Eldon Ladd

#christian #healing #jesus #kingdom-of-god #messianic-task

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#believing-in-god #god #religion #religion

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires ↗

— Pablo

#bible #blood #jesus #life #religion

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#freethinking #religion

[Der Zoll] ist ein Gesellschaftsspiel und eine Religion, die Religion der Vaterländer. ↗

— Kurt Tucholsky

#religion

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #general-relativity #mathematics #quantum-mechanics #religion

[L]anguage is not the sign of the idea actually existing in the mind of the speaker—but of that which (s)he desires to convey to the hearer. ↗

— Philip Beauchamp

#nature

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them. ↗

— Frank O'Connor

#religion #schism #religion

For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines. ↗

— John Calvin

#pneumatology #religion

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. ↗

— Susan Neiman

#religion #superstition #religion