#religion

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#basis #birth #death #evangelists #fact

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#honest #into #introduction #passion #politics

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conduct #fact #his #man #regards

There can be no truce between science and religion. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#religion #science #truce

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#aim #cured #either #equally #fire

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#religion #truth #freedom

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy ↗

— Tim Willocks

#sadness #religion

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#behind #comes #decrease #eat #followers

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. ↗

— Paul Harris

#england #ever #militant #new #new england