#belief

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. ↗

— William Golding

#impossibility #money #power #money

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#debt #story #money

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . . ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#god #morality #power #nature

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place. ↗

— Kyle Bristow

#brainwashed #liberal #liberalism #values #nature

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#old-fashioned #relationships #women #relationship

God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#christianity #god #hell #religion #religion

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. ↗

— Daniel L. Pals

#gods #religion #religion

I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#believing #judgmental #religion #right #wrong

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing. ↗

— Eric Weiner

#god #religion #religion