#religion

I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed..." - John Wimber ↗

— John Wimber

#religion #faith

O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty. -- Ya Allah, jika aku menyembahMu karena takut neraka, bakarlah aku di dalamnya, dan jika aku menyembahMu karena mengharap surga, campakkanlah aku darinya. Tetapi, jika aku menyembahMu demi Engkau semata, Janganlah Engkau enggan memperlihatkan keindahan wajahMu Yang abadi padaku. ↗

— Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah

#beauty

Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens. ↗

— Chu Jeff

#faith #love #relationships-l #religion #faith

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#country #die #doing #go #know

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#religion #religious #sentiment

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. ↗

— Ram Dass

#becomes #born #i #important #more

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#ends #knowledge #religion #where

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#better #dead #discover #had #know