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I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#suffering #religion

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#religion #south #religion

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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لو نفع العلم بلا عمل ؛ لما ذم الله أحبار أهل الكتاب , ولو نفع العمل بلا إخلاص ؛ لما ذم المنافقين ↗

— ابن قيم الجوزية

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." (Notebooks) ↗

— Voltaire

#atheism #idolatry #religion #religion

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. ↗

— Delos Banning McKown

#religion #science #religion

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

#christianity #popular-culture #religion #religion

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. ↗

— Vine Deloria Jr.

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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evil #fanaticism #fundamentalism #religion #religion

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam ↗

— Angus Wilson

#free-will #hell #judgemental #religion #religion