#eli

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#religion

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it. ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#prayer #religion #religion

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#doubt #religion #religion

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#change #conservatism #religion #status-quo #religion

Religion’s biggest crime is to slow down the Human’s Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). ↗

— al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee

#craving-for-wealth #greed #quotes-of-prophet-muhammad #status #wealth

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. ↗

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#heaven #heaven-and-hell #hell #humor #humour

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge. ↗

— Eric Weiner

#knowledge #mystery #religion #religion

The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding. ↗

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#humor #marriage #marriage-humor #religion #sex