#religion

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#church #dallas-willard #inspirational #religion #age

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #age

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#any #established #feature #law #marked

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew. ↗

— Anne Moody

#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#been #friends #more #more people #name

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion. ↗

— David Miliband

#communism #meant #meant to be #religion

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#cry #deny #human #human beings #made

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art #how #masterpiece #people #religion

Если искусство — всего лишь выражение неудовлетворенных страстей, если религия — самообман, то для чего мы живем? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#religion #art

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#because #beings #human #human beings #i