All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“Priests are said in Scripture to devour the sins of the people; and they find sins so hard to digest that they must have the best wine to wash them down.”

“Silence brings answers; you just have to listen.  So I listened.  And it’s not sounds as most people think, listening can be feelings, sights, smells.  Listening is receiving just like all the other senses; you just have to be open.”Excerpt From: Marcus A. Nelson. “ Born from Weeds & Rats.” iBooks.”

“Silence brings answers; you just have to listen.  So I listened.  And it’s not sounds as most people think, listening can be feelings, sights, smells.  Listening is receiving just like all the other senses; you just have to be open.”Excerpt From: Born from Weeds & Rats”

“The moral vacuum we now feel ourselves to be in has always been there, even if we haven’t recognized it Religious people are already entirely accustomed to picking and choosing which texts from holy book they obey and which they reject. There are passages of the Judeo-Christian Bible which no modern Christian or Jew would wish to follow. The story of Isaac’s narrowly averted sacrifice by his father Abraham strikes us moderns as a shocking piece of child abuse, whether we read it literally or symbolically.”

“Your religion doesn’t determine your value here on earth, maybe in the next one; but it is your growth and relevance to your fellow humans that does.”

“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”

“She kissed him then, with the same mixture of wonder and irony with which she kissed the cross in church. She didn’t always understand that, either.”

“Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.”

“Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident.”

“Tribalism is really a form of egoism. It’s all about my people, my religion, me, me, me.”

“Religion, too, has defenders on both halves of the political spectrum. Even writers who are unwilling to defend the literal content of religious beliefs may be fiercely defensive of religion and hostile to the idea that science and reason have anything to say about morality (most of them show little awareness that humanism even exists). Defenders of the faith insist that religion has the exclusive franchise for questions about what matters. Or that even if we sophisticated people don’t need religion to be moral, the teeming masses do. Or that even if everyone would be better off without religious faith, it’s pointless to talk about the place of religion in the world because religion is a part of human nature, which is why, mocking Enlightenment hopes, it is more tenacious than ever.”

“Nunca me ha convencido el punto de vista que sitúa a la serpiente como el villano en la historia de Adán y Eva. En cuanto se lo piensa un poco, la serpiente no obliga ni engaña a Eva, ni mucho menos a Adán. Apenas si le sugiere a Eva probar el fruto prohibido. La serpiente seduce, pero no amenaza. Eva podría haber rechazado su incitación sin riesgos. Adán también.”

“Even region separates people religion should not separate people.”

“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”

“Наука і релігія – не конкуренти, це дві різні мови, які говорять про те саме. У світі є місце для них обох.”