#religion

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ↗

— Socrates

#best #blessings #general #god #good

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. ↗

— Raymond Sokolov

#bar #building #buildings #corner #diagonally

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#alter #always #consciousness #easier #elevation

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#earth #endlessly #every #exists #face

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#ask #christian #christian religion #die #enough

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#asking #because #between #both #cases

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#beloved #christianity #clergy #country #degree

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#believe #buddhist #catholic #family #i

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#life #practically #religion #speaking #story