#religion

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#anything #contribution #force #i #i do

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#evolution #id #intelligent-design #macroevolution #naturalism

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#comedy #explode #guy #him #i

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#christian religion #even #few #hidden #meaning

Knowledge is a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#religion #education

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#because #faith #i #i am #journalist

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#god #grateful #grateful dead #homage #other