#eli

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#atheist #freedom #legislation #liberty #politics

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#philosophy #religion #freedom

Do not fear the curse that an enemy has uttered, it is harmless.. but the sigh concealed in a loved one's broken heart may add to your sins. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#enemy #feelings #friendship #friendships #heart

What year did Jesus think it was? ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #jesus-christ #religion #time #humor

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #humor

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#doctrine #ethics #law #morality #principles

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#death-anxiety #grief #psychology #staring-at-the-sun #death

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#prayer #religious #inspirational

Do not use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. ↗

— Anonymous

#religious #inspirational