#nit

God save us from people who mean well. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#good-intentions #humanity #religion #religion

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #religion

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #evil #religion #religion

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#religion #religion

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity. ↗

— Rob Bell

#religion

the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding ↗

— Anonymous

#religion #spirituality #wisdom #religion

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#christianity #ethics #religion #religion

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? ↗

— John Adams

#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humanity #nature-of-human #religion #spirits #nature