#eli

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly. ↗

— Martin Luther

#god #jesus-christ #religion #sin #religion

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#feelings #feeling

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism. ↗

— Helen Keller

#nature #optimism #religion #spirituality #nature

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes. ↗

— Dawn Jayne

#religion #scripture #tourettes #religion

Have a religion but don't let religion have you! ↗

— Janina Lea Dela Peña

#life-philosophy #reality #religion-meaning #religion-philosophy #religion

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him. ↗

— Major W. Ian Thomas

#deliverance #sin-nature #nature

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer, where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the thunderstorm, the oceans and the underworld, fire and time and love and war; where every tree and meadow had its dryad and maenad. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#nature #religion #understanding #love

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heaven #inclusion #nature #religion #swedenborg

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place. ↗

— Kyle Bristow

#brainwashed #liberal #liberalism #values #nature