#religion

All religions have been made by men. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #men #religions

Atheists and their fellow travelers point to Islamic terrorism as a wake-up call that we'd better abandon God or the biblical disasters attributed to him will pale in comparison to what we'll end up doing to ourselves. In other words, God may not be dead, but keeping him alive endangers the human race. ↗

— Richard Yancey

#death-of-god #god #religion #death

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#c-s-lewis #life #living #play #religion

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#i #job #kid #like #little

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#because #charged #country #faith #highly

الدين عقل وعاطفة ، وعلم وأدب ، ونظر صائب ، وبصيرة نيرة. ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#islam #religion #faith

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#christianity #faith #religion #war #faith

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christians #church #commandments #faith #inspirational

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. ↗

— Edward Bond

#done #drama #enabled #goodness #greek