#religion

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy ↗

— Tim Willocks

#sadness #religion

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#religion

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God. ↗

— Harry Blamires

#english-literature #god #religion #truth #wisdom

So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#cost #failed #fairness #god #led

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#after #attained #country #dogma #enforced

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#nature #part #person #religion #sympathy

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#psychology #religion #science #therapy #religion

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#grow up #i #love #mormon #religion