#religion

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ethics #practice #religion #theology #change

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families. ↗

— Ja Rule

#families #feeling #general #god #got

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual. ↗

— Ja Rule

#i #i am #into #lot #many

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#consists #dependence #essence #feeling #religion

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #like

Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #age

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#freedom #freedom from #freedom of religion #provides #religion

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #god #heaven #hell #life

Pray to God, but row towards shore. ↗

— Lee Ezell

#religion #inspirational

you can't make sense of everything," she said. "that ain't the job of man. ↗