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I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much harm.”…I realized that what troubled me most was her use of the word “comfort,” so in my reply I addressed that first. I said that I didn’t think it was comfort I was seeking, or comfort that I’d found. Look, I said to her, as a rush of words came to me. As far as I’m concerned, this religion has saved my life, my husband’s life, and our marriage. So it’s not comfort that I’m talking about but salvation. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

#religion #salvation #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

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#love #love

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery. ↗

— Zoë Heller

#failure-of-imagination #rationality #faith

The ship did not leave without you. It left to make room for your ship soon to arrive....the power of hope and faith. ↗

— Val Edward Simone

#motivational #faith

Please don't take my wings... ↗

— Randall Wallace

#hope #inspirational #faith

To be a human being is to be a child of God ↗

— M. Bartolo-Abela

#faith #inspirational #religion #spirituality #faith

بحكم المنطق الداخلي للأشياء يتوازى كل من التطور و الحضارةو العلم والطوبيا مع الإلحاد، بينما يتوازى الخلق والثقافة و الفن و الأخلاق مع الدين. ↗

— علي عزت بيجوفيتش

#faith #islam #religion #faith

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards. ↗

— E.J. Dionne Jr.

#religion #faith

The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a certain extent if at the same time as we observe them from the outside we manage by sympathy to transport our own soul into theirs for a time. In the same way the study of different religions does not lead to a real knowledge of them unless we transport ourselves for a time by faith to the very center of whichever one we are studying...This scarcely ever happens, for some have no faith, and the others have faith exclusively in one religion and only bestow upon the others the sort of attention we give to strangely shaped shells. There are others again who think they are capable of impartiality because they have only a vague religiosity which they can turn indifferently in any direction, whereas, on the contrary, we must have given all our attention, all our faith, all our love to a particular religion in order to think of any other religion with the high degree of attention, faith, and love that is proper to it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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