#religion

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten... ↗

— Simon Boylan

#religion #spirit #spirituality #wisdom #freedom

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#devils #religion #saints #love

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #nowhere #religion #whiskey #love

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#love

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#age

I prefer walking in the street and thinking about God to staying in the mosque and thinking about my shoes. ↗

— Ali Shariati

#life #love #religion #love

...people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and upside down for what they are. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#horses #religion #beauty

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #god #logic #reason #religion