#religion

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#future #happiness #life #past #present

Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#church #crowds #religion #life

Amendment to live by- J.O.Y. Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last. ↗

— Michelle Duggar

#life #religion #life

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#life #religion #life

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion #life

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#religion #life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life." ↗

— R. Bosworth Smith

#islam #religion #truth #life

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#philosophy #religion #life

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#religion #sigmund-freud #life