#religion

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ↗

— Avicenna

#into #men #religion #who #wit

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#everyday #everything #falls #first #i

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

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#am #anything #free #government #i

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#been #controversy #great #made #politics

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

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #justice #religion #men

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #evangelists #extended #extended family #family