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I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

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In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same time, many others are struggling t get by in the face of inequality, corruption, and injustice. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

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If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe. ↗

— John Dryden

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Throughout Mesoamerica it was a common belief that a dog carried the soul of a newly deceased person across a body of water. According to the Aztecs, the first level of the Underworld was a place called Apanoayan (where one crosses the river) or Itzcuintlan (the Place of Dogs). ↗

— Elizabeth Eiler

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(Jesus speaking) "An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional, very contrary to my purposes. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#doctrine #narrow-mindedness #orthodoxy #prophecies #religion

Le contestaban que durante muchos años habían estado sin cura, arreglando negocios del alma directamente con Dios, y habían perdido la malicia del pecado mortal. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor 'a philosophy.' It is the summing up and actuality of them all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#truth #religion

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#philosophy #quotations #quotes #religion #science

How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever. ↗

— Laurence B. Brown

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