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All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#cross #intercourse #orgasm #religion #salvation

The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed. ↗

— Gil Bailie

#violence #religion

I spell God with two o's. ↗

— Jon Shculberg

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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. ↗

— John Green

#rememberance #religion

The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness. ↗

— Arthur J. Russell

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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#christianity #god #jesus #religion #religion

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights ↗

— Ephraim the Syrian

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