#religion

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#be true #despise #hate #may #men

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. ↗

— William Pennington

#father #god #lift #lord #our

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#atheist #been #believe #both #church

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#always #been #born #brilliant #consciousness

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#fear #fraud #friend #greed #imagination

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#enter #intimacy #into #must #people

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#fight #like #look #manifestation #militancy

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#been #go #go to hell #hell #people

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. ↗

— James Randi

#been #better #characters #costumes #difference