#lie

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#charity #community #compassion #faith #kindness

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#belief #capitalism #faith #grand-narratives #islam

I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions. It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day. ↗

— Toba Beta

#faith #grow #religion #stimulation #faith

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#faith #night #spirituality #faith

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#faith #illusions #infancy #life #sleep

Fear comes when faith left. ↗

— Zai

#inspiration #islam #faith

Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life. ↗

— Kedar Nath Tiwari

#religion #faith

All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations. ↗

— Valery Bryusov

#religion #spirituality #faith

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#faith #justification #religions #trust #faith

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. ↗

— Charles Hartshorne

#deism #faith #god #logic #pandeism