#religion

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down. ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#god #inspirational #japanese-fiction #philosophy-religion #war

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#god #religion #reverence #faith

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#secularism #faith

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#faith

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17) ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#religion #faith

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being. ↗

— David James Duncan

#mysticism #religion #religious-freedom #spirituality #faith

Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#god #religion #faith

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage? ↗

— Dan Barker

#sing #faith

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue. ↗

— Greg Graffin

#faith