#eli

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#religious #death

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#believed #bringing #classes #government #growth

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#science-fiction #stranger-in-a-strange-land #faith

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual. ↗

— Sela Ward

#am #belief #find #god #i

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

You said one day you would come back for us The ones that believed in you The ones that asked you into their hearts The ones that served you ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift. ↗

— Shane Warne

#gone #had #i #i can #knife

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#antichristian #faith #god #religion-christianity #faith

It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#god #happiness #marriage #mitch-albom #religion

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#faith #religion #faith