#religion

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#how #joyfully #kindly #live #midst

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#afterlife #am #conditions #ego #eternally

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ego #egotism #endorse #give #identity

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#becomes #dreams #everything #fantasies #our dreams

Атеизм свидетельствует о силе ума, но лишь до известной степени. ↗

— Блез Паскаль

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If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#life #religion #religion

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #ineffectual #novels #passion

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#persecution #propagation #religion #requires #sustain

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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