#eh

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#cruelty #deism #disaster #god #jehovah

I inspire the uninspired, I make possible the impossible, I surpass the any and everything you do, I am the Greatest ↗

— Leah Harris

#qreatness #inspirational

People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#deceived #energy #golden-rule #honor #inspiration

The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected. ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#creepy #horror #revelation #imagination

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#imagination

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #face #fall #keep #shadows

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#inspirational

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #organized-religion #religion #inspirational

Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#christian-behavior #god #inspirational #motivational #religion

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games