#eli

In serving others, the church will save itself from becoming nothing more than a spiritualized 501c3 not-for-profit, self-centered corporation, organized for the benefit of donor tax exemption. Serving others will remind us of our identity and call us out from this self-absorbed, selfish world to be the people of God on a journey following his Son, Jesus. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#service #religion

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

ان القبائل العربية كانت تنظر للدعوة المحمدية بوصفها ظاهرة عادية تدخل في اطار تلك الحركة الدينية حركة الحنفاء التي ميزت تلك الحقبة من الزمن ↗

— محمد عابد الجابري

#religion

الايمان كان يحمل معنى حق المواطنة في الدولة الاسلامية ↗

— محمد عابد الجابري

#religion

...pero sé que hay hombres buenos y malos, y que estos reflejan en su dios, predicando falsamente en su nombre, sus propias miserias. ↗

— Jorge Molist

#god #religion #religion

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#acting #back #coming #communicate #get

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #deal #ellen #fear #feelings

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#brain #cognitive #constructs #directly #does

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child