#religious

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#inspirational #religious #art

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#life

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#inspirational #light #lighthouse #religious #rescue

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#became #doing #few #few women #first

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him! ↗

— Joel Osteen

#god #religion #religious #trust #religion

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#religious #death

You said one day you would come back for us The ones that believed in you The ones that asked you into their hearts The ones that served you ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#churches #community #continuum #distinguishes #dosage

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety