#religion

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#religion #faith

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #grief #loss #religion #faith

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

#islam #koran #qur-an #quran #religion

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight. ↗

— David Wong

#religion #faith

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mind #religion #spirit #faith

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#holy #jews #judaism #problems #religion

I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on makeup and other nonessentials, to make her worship every biological moment she was offered instead of some badly punctured deity. I also wanted to kiss her for some reason, feel the life pulsing in those big Catholic lips, remind myself of the primacy of the living animal, of my time amongst the Romans. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#religions #roman #change

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one ↗

— John Lennon

#dreams #idealism #nationalism #peace #religion