#religion

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#believe #beyond #depending #dream #existence

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#caught #contrary #death #drama #harmony

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#his #man #more #religion #stubbornness

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#agreement #beneath #differences #discipline #doctrine

Primitive societies without religion have never been found. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#found #never #primitive #religion #societies

We are punished by our sins, not for them. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#our #punished #sins #them

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

I'm religiously opposed to religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#opposed #religion #religiously