#religion

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. ↗

— John Green

#death

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam. ↗

— George Carlin

#getting-older #religion #death

An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#atheists #religion #death

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21). ↗

— Sam Harris

#morality #religion #death

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. ↗

— José Saramago

#existentialism #human #human-condition #life #religion

And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did! ↗

— John Bytheway

#humor #love #religion #dating

For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD. ↗

— Anonymous

#religion #death

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#physics #religion #uncertainty #death

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#become #center #men #men and women #moment

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #religion #faith