#religion

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. ↗

— Karl Barth

#does #give #god #himself #jesus

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#break #break up #crumbles #cults #direct

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#because #being #day #executed #find

The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself. ↗

— University of Navarre

#god #old-testament #religion #scripture #wisdom

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Bart D. Ehrman

#intelligence #life #literature #religion #inspirational

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. ↗

— John Burroughs

#been #curiosity #joy #keen #religion

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#comes #down #mysticism #original #poor

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#divisive #eastern #itself #know #quarrelsome

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition. ↗

— Mas'udi

#byzantium #christianity #religion #science #religion

We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation. ↗

— Steve Turner

#pluralism #reductionism #religion #dating