#religion

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#devils #religion #saints #love

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #nowhere #religion #whiskey #love

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#love

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#religion #inspirational

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#believe #faith #religion #truth #faith

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #faith

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#religion #faith

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real. ↗

— Misty Edwards

#beauty #belief #charity #christ #christian

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#christianity #dark-ages #religion #age

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#age