#religion

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible. ↗

— Mark

#christianity #religion #men

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#god #religion #faith

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#god #religion #religion

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#atheism #efficiency #religion #religion

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#pity #possess #religion #religion

And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#religion #tenets #worship #religion

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#religion

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach. ↗

— Chris F. Holm

#hell #philosophy #religion #religion

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. ↗

— James Clavell

#priests #religion #religion

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#al #bardem #god #javier #pacino