#religion

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. ↗

— John Adams

#religion #religious-freedom #freedom

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#love #philosophy #religion #anger

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift ↗

— Dan Brown

#inspirational #religion #forgiveness

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#forgiveness #god #religion #forgiveness

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #experience

The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called ignorant. For a wise person cannot associate with a fool. The wise person is perfect in all wisdom, but to the fool, good and evil are one and the same. For the wise person will be nourished by the truth...Some people have wings but run after what they can see, what is far from the truth. ↗

— Anonymous

#religion #spirituality #inspirational

You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesmen's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a shithead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#business

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#experience #holy-books #life #living #religion

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#religion #science #nature

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #journey #pay-tools #religion #roadway