#eli

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#humor #judaism #religion #religion

No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

#religion #religion

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ↗

— Randy Elrod

#sensuality #sexuality #spirituality #religion

Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one. ↗

— Randy Elrod

#god #sex #religion

L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle est d'un même mouvement un retour sur Soi et sur l'Autre considérés ensemble, mais l'habitude d'une relation à sens unique depuis cinq siècles n'autorise pas l'inversion de cette relation a produire les mêmes effets. ↗

— Jean Copans

#religion

I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~ ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#enforce #fly #ocean #people #religion

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. ↗

— James A. Michener

#religion

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#dissent #rationality #reason #religion #satire

When you saw only one set of footprints in the sand, it was then that I carried you.-the Lord ↗

— Margaret Powers Fishback

#religion #inspirational

...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It’s a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way." -David Clark ↗

— David Clark

#grace #religion #love