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Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#fairies #god #gods #i-was-so-full #religion

Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk'ın ışığıdır; sevgili değil. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir. ↗

— Rumi

#religion #women-rights #religion

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments. ↗

— Anne Rice

#power #religion

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reflections-on-the-psalms #religion #self-righteousness #men

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#god #religion #religious #walt-whitman #religion

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#else #everyone #heart #i #knowledge

The worship of power is an old religion. ↗

— George Santayana

#religion #wisdom #religion

Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté. ↗

— St. Thérèse de Lisieux

#hell #l-enfer #religion #ste-thérèse #will-of-god

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#violence #war #religion

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#social-world #storytelling #writers #art