#eli

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

يحتاج دارس التراث إلى متابعة الممارسات الذهنية للإسلامويين وطرائق تفكيرهم، لأنها ستساعده في فهم الطريقة التي تأسست بها سلطة الخطاب المهيمن في التراث. كما أنه سيدرك أن ما يغلب على خطاب الإسلامويين من التفكير بالتمثيل والصورة بالأساس، إنما يرتبط بالطبيعة السلطوية لهذا الخطاب. ويقوم هذا الضرب من التفكير على استدعاء أحد مراكز السيادة العليا في الإسلام (كالنبي مثلاً) ليكون طرفاً في تمثيل يكون طرفه الآخر هو الشخص الذي يُراد بناء سلطته (الرئيس مرسي أو غيره مثلاً). وإذ يفعل الخطاب ذلك فإنه يجعل السلطة الرمزية لمركز السيادة الأعلى تعمل على حراسة السلطة المهددة للطرف الآخر. وبالطبع فإن هذا الضرب من التفكير بالتمثيل والصورة يرتبط بطفولة الإنسانية وقصورها العقلي؛ حيث يحيل العقل إلى إنسانية لم تعد تقبل بتماثلات الخارج (الأشباه والنظائر)، وتلح على إدراك ما يرقد تحت السطح الظاهر؛ حيث لا تمثيل، بل تفكيك ↗

— علي مبروك

#religion

This is the primordial religion – a human body and the manifestation of God within it. How does it happen? It occurs spontaneously. For this only a human body is necessary and that should be flawless. Wherever it is available on earth, this will manifest, let him be a fin, or Lap. ↗

— sri jibankrishna or Diamond

#primordial #religion #religion

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, ‘it is good to be alive!’ I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine? ↗

— Helen Keller

#god #heaven #hope #love #optimism

I am working on unconditional self acceptance. If I do poor or well, weather I am liked or not. I am a imperfect person in a imperfect world. I set goals and work very hard for them Its what makes me happy so I go on. ↗

— Charles Hibbs

#principal #religion #religion

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #religion #religion

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

— Ramsay MacMullen

#history #history-of-religion #religion