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I believe that the word "hope" was created to strengthen one's belief that miracles can happen. I believe that the word "love" was created to represent a miracle in it's purest form. ↗

— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

#faith #hope #impossibility #love #miracle

La fe y el amor son el conjunto perfecto para recibir el abrazo de Dios diariamente en nuestras vidas ↗

— Theiska Castillo Medina

#inspirational #religious-faith #spanish #faith

إن العبد حين يستشعر معنى اسم الله "الوكيل"، يفوّض أمره إلى ربه، ويقنع بقضائه، ويلتمس فضله، وبفعل السبب مع التوكل على الله يكون قد أدّى عبادة من أعظم العبادات. ↗

— سلمان العودة

#inspirational #religious #faith

When I stand strong in you I can look beyond the clouds With your words The sun will rise again ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. The Brothers Karamazov Book VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#father-zosima #hell #holiness #piety #religion

When “doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot rightfully be called the truth. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#grace #religion #faith

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#individualism #politics #religious-right #righteousness #faith

Once, when I was puzzled to know why there were so many religions, he said: "There is one universal religion, Helen- the religion of love. Love your heavenly father with your whole heart and soul, love every child of God as much as you ever can, and remember that the possibilities of good are greater than the possibilities of evil; and you have the key to heaven." And his life was a happy illustration of this great truth. In this noble soul love and widest knowledge were blended with faith that had become insight. He saw God in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens and consoles. ↗

— Helen Keller

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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #family

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.) ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#family #god #love #shame #family