#go

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#christianity #god #religion #sacrifice #religion

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#anton-gorodetsky #death #life #death

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jerusalem #jews #mediterranean-basin

Some people think nature is their God. I'd like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#nature #religion #nature

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him. ↗

— Mike Malloy

#god #religion #religion

There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #madness-and-civilization #religion #religion

To think because you have been “saved” that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn’t fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#brainwashed #personal-truth #religion #seeking-god #testimony

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#father #god #judge #justice #religion

Of course I prayed-- and did God care? He cared as much as if in the air a bird had cried 'Give me,' and stamped her foot! ↗

— Emily Dickenson

#religion #religion

The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#ethnicity #good #indifferent #not-my-turn-to-die #religion