#religion

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you! ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion #life

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him. ↗

— Michael Arditti

#homosexuality #religion #life

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. ↗

— Yann Martel

#freedom

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#religion #revolution #freedom

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #religion #love

Hate the sin, love the sinner. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#love #religion #sin #sinners #love

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#god #religion #love

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#religion #inspirational

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