#try

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#idolatry #sin #nature

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inanimate #inanimate-objects #interpretation #literature

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. ↗

— Erwin Chargaff

#essays #language-literature #nature

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again? ↗

— Emily Brontë

#poetry #death

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #nature #pablo-neruda #poetry #love

The glamorous splender of a mystical moon.. Natures sleepless wonders. ↗

— Shamima Mulla

#nature

Matthews asked: “How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?” “Intimate?” Phil still couldn’t grasp what they were asking. “My colleague is asking if you’d ever had sex with Dr. Miller before that evening.” Jones added curtly. “I’ve never…We’ve never…We’re friends. We’d never had sex before that evening, and we didn’t have sex that evening either.” “How do you explain your semen in her sheets then, Mr. Marshall? ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #relationship

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

— Voltaire

#atheism #idolatry #religion #religion

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#zealotry #religion

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#religion #religion