#eli

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it must be assumed to have practical justification - though the very longevity that proves its practicality may obscure it. That seems to be what happened with the idea of fidelity... Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence. (pg.115-116, "The Body and the Earth") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#fidelity #marriage #virtue #age

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#religion

God is not a Christian. ↗

— Archbishop Desmond Tutu

#god #religion #spirituality #religion

Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#solving-problems #religion

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?" "You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft. ↗

— Cecily White

#religion #sarcasm #religion

UNA PREGUNTITA: ¿Usted entraría a un sitio donde, bajo una estatua de un tipo desnudo y muerto en un instrumento de tortura, se celebra un ritual cuyo punto culminante es la ingestión simbólica de la carne y la sangre del muerto representado? ↗

— Saurio

#atheism #catolicismo #escepticismo #humor #religion

Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#ethics #religion #religion

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#religion #religion

I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#prayer #religion #rosary #religion

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity? ↗

— Mark Twain

#spirituality #religion