#religion

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. ↗

— Stendhal

#philosophy-religion #faith

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ever #only #possible #religion #scientifically

Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#criminals #humane #rehabilitation #religion #religion

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#mankind #mass #necessity #religion #some

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#act #better #hundred #obedience #one act

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ↗

— Bono

#elvis #enemy #god #happens #left

Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it ↗