#religion

Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#cost #count #give #teach #us

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#religion #simple #very

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bad #feel #feel good #i #i do

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #great #importance #lastly #life

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#bent #civilization #destroying #fighting #group

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

بعضنا قد يحيا متخلفا عن عصره ألف سنة ، يخاصم فرقا بادت ، ويناقش قضايا نسيت ما يحب الناس أن يسمعوا عنها جدا ولا هزلا .. والإسلام لا يخدم بهذا الأسلوب ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#islam #religion #salafism #religion

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. ↗

— George Orwell

#theocracy #totalitarianism #religion

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bias #ideology #religion #nature

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#force #major #religion #sex #world