#religion

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#inspirational #religion #inspirational

Kita dipersilakan oleh Tuhan untuk berharap yang muluk, bermimpi yang muluk, serta berdoa yang muluk. ↗

— Ahmad Rifai Rifan

#religion #inspirational

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#god #morganville-vampires #religion #forgiveness

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#god #meaning #religion #change

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself. ↗

— G.N. Chevalier

#religion #social-change #change

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#dogma #freedom-of-thought #independent-thought #inspirational #politics

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#faith #freedom #laughter #mysticism #religion

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship. ↗

— Steve Brown

#joy #laughter #religion #worship #freedom

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dimension #element #religion #transcendent

In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#god #gospel #religion #repentance #change