#religious

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#pioneers #religious-freedom #sacrifice #willie-handcart #zion

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

#religious #death

Take no stock in saying, "never", because it carries no guarantee. ↗

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#church #devotional #god #guarantee #inspirational

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action ↗

— Maitreya Upanishad

#inspirational

God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith

Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss? ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#inspirational

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal. ↗

— Rumi

#islam #rumi #inspirational

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#love

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #global #movement #off #open