#religion

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#distraction #else #everything #head #politics

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#christ #christians #i #i do #like

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#external #god #necessarily #religion #search

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#even #faith #love #love is #possible

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#living #might #religion #technology #you

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head! ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#religion #faith

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. ↗

— Neal Boortz

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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#belief #christian #christian religion #christmas #conditioning

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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