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There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#friendship #passion #relationship

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ↗

— William Blake

#logic #philosophy #religion #truth #religion

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#humor #women #death

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate. ↗

— George Carlin

#religion #taxation #religion

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#child-abuse #children #feminism #hell #religion

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fundamental #great #i #i believe #i believe in

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #men

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#sobriety #religion

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#importance #important #minds #religion #the-truth

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#religion #religion