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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #religion




Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.


E. Stanley Jones


#aligning #god #ourselves #prayer #purposes

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.


Helen Keller


#amount #devil #die #energy #ennui

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.


Ben Kingsley


#certain extent #class #extent #hierarchy #like

Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianity were a negligible hypothesis with no relation to the concrete realities of the world and society. And yet at the bottom of his heart this man remains impregnated with Christianity, so that he lives in a state of perpetual ambivalence with regard to it.


Paul Tournier


#religion

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.


Darrel Ray


#religion #sexual-abuse #religion

The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church.


Darrel Ray


#religion #sexual-abuse #religion

Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life, and now I know that we must lift the sail and catch the winds of destiny whever they drive the boat to put meaning in ones life may end in madness but life without meaning is torture of resllessnes and vague desire - it is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.


Edger Lee Masters


#men #religion #wild-at-heart #life

Religions are the cradles of despotism.


Marquis de Sade


#religions

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.


Carl Sagan


#deep #means #nonsense #religion #science

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.


Philip Schaff


#acts #belong #class #epistles #first






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