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Receive this blessing as you go forth this day: “May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” Numbers 6:24 ↗

— Anonymous

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They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hatred #intolerance #narrow-mindedness #perception #persecution

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back. ↗

— Bono

#frisbee #religion #religion

Woman is the light of God. ↗

— Rumi

#persian #persian-poetry #religion #rumi #rumi-poetry

My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running! ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humanity #nature-of-human #religion #spirits #nature

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original. ↗

— Albert Camus

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When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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