#eli

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. ↗

— Martin Amis

#awe #humanism #reality #religion #religion

الدين إجابة على سؤال كيف تحيا في ذاتك وتواجه هذه الذات ، وليس إجابة على سؤال كيف تعيش في العالم مع الآخرين. ↗

— علي عزت بيجوفيتش

#religion

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save. ↗

— Simone Weil

#religion

Ai pus nitroglicerină sub perna lui dumnezeu ... ↗

— Saşa Pană

#religion #surrealism #religion

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#worship #religion

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#church #government #governments #religion #religion

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#religion

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#common-sense #religion #religion

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#politics #religion #religion

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religions #life