#mar

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love #marriage #relationships #relationships-love #respecting-others

Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom— ↗

— N. Wood Lane

#do-it-to-my-mind #fiction #marriage-life #n-wood-lane #relationships

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#awkward #christmas #conversation #dead-air #march-

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#christianity #feminism #mary #women #religion

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. ↗

— David Sedaris

#naked #religion #religion

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. ↗

— Karl Marx

#opium-of-the-people #religion #religion

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#religion #religion

I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an abundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. But there's a difference between our countries that is also a similarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has different faces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don't have the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for your survival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, and I would not want to exchange that for your abundance. ↗

— Henning Mankell

#poverty #religion #faith

When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, "One of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war against religion and in particular against Christianity" in the United States. For a potential president to state that he sees himself as a wartime candidate who will defend his party against other citizens is astonishing. There is not even a pretense here of "united states". ↗

— Candida Moss

#martyrdom #president #republican #religion

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries. ↗

— David Hume

#religion