#eli

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#faith #grace #religion #repentance #timothy-keller

I am a believer and a conformist. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#believer #conformist #i #i am

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ↗

— Avicenna

#into #men #religion #who #wit

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#back #became #because #been #body

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#amount #crazy #eight #eighty #every

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#carry #day #eliminate #figured #get

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#believe #bring #brought #children #drawn