#religion

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #love

Strive to engage in activities that require constant self-development. Nurture and develop the physical body, but also our spiritual nature. We exist for a purpose: to honor our spirituality. When we do, we cannot help but love others. Hurting others is easily recognized as a crime against ourselves. It’s no coincidence that all religions teach this at their core. ↗

— Janet M. Tavakoli

#religion #spirituality #love

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began. ↗

— Geerhardus Vos

#christianity #god #jesus #philosophy #religion

And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from their hearts. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#the-grand-inquisitor #love

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#feminism #frustration #patriarchy #politics #progress

She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#unhappiness #change

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dogma #religion #self-righteous #stubborn #change

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. ↗

— Eben Alexander III

#inspirational #irony #laughter #religion #world

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #mothers-and-daughters #religion #love

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#gods #inspirational #religion #inspirational