#religion

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#god #religion #love

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#religion #inspirational

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#religion #art

I prefer walking in the street and thinking about God to staying in the mosque and thinking about my shoes. ↗

— Ali Shariati

#life #love #religion #love

...people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and upside down for what they are. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#horses #religion #beauty

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #god #logic #reason #religion

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #men

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there! ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#religion #science #death

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#religion #business

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion #secularism #art