#religion

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ↗

— John Comenius

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There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world. ↗

— George Steiner

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#enough #entire #entire life #ever #life

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

#religion #spirituality #experience

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#approach #cannot #i #land #maintain

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#religion #temper

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#any #better #holiday #holiday season #like

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught. ↗

— Knute Nelson

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