#religion

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#religion

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#tolerance #religion

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know". ↗

— Nathanie Randall

#philosophical #religion #science #nature

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith "Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c) 2012 ↗

— Frank Olvera

#religion-christianity #science-fiction #faith

It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#religion #death

Mithorden said it well," she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared." She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#death #faith #prophecy #religion #the-end

Even from the most rigorous scientific perspective, unselfishness and concern for others are not only in our own interests but also, in a sense, innate to out biological nature. In Indian usage, "secular", far from implying antagonism toward religion or toward people of faith, actually implies a profound respect for and tolerance toward all religions. "honor another's religion, for doing so strengthens both one's own and that of the other. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#god #religion #faith

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #future-of-an-illusion #religion #faith