#eli

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#release #relief #tears #dreams

What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you say "I believe there's an all-powerful force of love in the universe that connects us all, and I have no evidence of that but I believe it in my heart," then it's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that Sharon Tate deserves to die. It's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that you need to fly planes into buildings for Allah. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#faith #manson #religion #faith

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#religion #faith

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #tattoo #dreams

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#dreaming #dreams #dreams-inspirational #inspirational #inspirational-life

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. ↗

— Elizabeth George Speare

#elizabeth-george-speare #witch-of-blackbird-pond #dreams

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion #freedom

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#escape #freedom #individual #obedience #purpose

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#free-speech #freedom #guarding #guards #injustice