#god

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#arms #children #country #enable #encircle

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#end #god #guidance #help #history

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#god #knows #only #spirit #twins

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. ↗

— Hans Kung

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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. ↗

— Hans Kung

#church #communion #community #god #hierarchy

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs? ↗

— Paulo Lins

#clarity #hellraiser #inspiration #beauty

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#religion #universe #religion

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life #religion #truth #religion

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #religion

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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