#chris

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christianity #morality #religion #religion

Nadie se preocupa por lo que va a ocurrir dentro de millones de años. Aunque crean que se están preocupando por ello, en realidad se engañan a sí mismos. Se preocupan por cosas mucho más mundanas aunque sólo sea una mala digestión; pero nadie es realmente desdichado al pensar lo que le va a ocurrir a este mundo dentro de millones de años. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#religion #religion

Existe este hecho curioso: cuanto más intensa ha sido la religión de cualquier periodo, y más profunda la creencia dogmática, han sido mayor la crueldad y peores las circunstancias. En las llamadas edades de la fe, cuando los hombres realmente creían en la religión cristiana en toda su integridad hubo la Inquisición con sus torturas; hubo muchas desdichadas mujeres quemadas por brujas; y toda clase de crueldades practicadas en toda clase de gente en nombre de la religión. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#religion #religion

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#ethics #religion #religion

Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful. So some real happening at the base of an account may be reconstructed by shrinking the account down to the physically possible. ↗

— Ramsay MacMullen

#scripture #nature

We have to be ready for the blessings God tosses at us. In order to catch your blessing, you have to let go of your burden. ↗

— Raylene Roybal

#god #relationship-v-s-religion #relationship

Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#christianity #religion #religion

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy. ↗

— Ramsay MacMullen

#history #history-of-religion #religion

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It’s an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the “Almighty-Other”, without the “Great Other” of transcendence. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#difference #god #identity #love #otherness

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility. ↗

— Idries Shah

#dialogue #islam #jesus #mohammed #peace