#eli

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival. ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#faith #inspiration #faith

Do not fear the curse that an enemy has uttered, it is harmless.. but the sigh concealed in a loved one's broken heart may add to your sins. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#enemy #feelings #friendship #friendships #heart

What year did Jesus think it was? ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #jesus-christ #religion #time #humor

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #humor

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#doctrine #ethics #law #morality #principles

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#death-anxiety #grief #psychology #staring-at-the-sun #death

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#hope #hopelessness #self-belief

Nay, if we should suppose, what seldom happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared that nothing but morality could gain the divine favor; if an order of priests were instituted to inculcate this opinion in daily sermons and with all the arts of persuasion; yet so inveterate are the people's prejudices, that, for want of some other superstition, they would make the very attendance on these sermons the essentials of religion, rather than place them in virtue and good morals. ↗

— David Hume

#art

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#religion #intelligence