For the Bible, despite all its contradictions and absurdities, its barbarisms and obscenities, remains grand and gaudy stuff, and so it deserves careful study and enlightened exposition. It is not only lovely in phrase; it is also rich in ideas, many of them far from foolish. One somehow gathers the notion that it was written from end to end by honest men—inspired, perhaps, but nevertheless honest. When they had anything to say they said it plainly, whether it was counsel that enemies be slain or counsel that enemies be kissed. They knew how to tell a story, and how to sing a song, and how to swathe a dubious argument in specious and disarming words.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: religion
All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and convey in language, but how can that ever be done? If the word water is not itself drinkable, how can the words we use to express the mystery of God be themselves absolute? They are metaphors, analogies, figures of speech, yet religious people have slaughtered and condemned each other over these experimental uncertainties. Our glory and agony as humans is that we long to find words that will no longer be words, mere signifiers, but the very experience they are trying to signify; and our tragedy is that we never succeed. This is the anguish that lies at the heart of all religion, because, though our words can describe our thirst for the absolute, they can never satisfy it.
Richard HollowayStichwörter: religion
Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu
B.R. AmbedkarStichwörter: religion hindiusm
Die Abgrenzung Jahwes als einzigem Gott von seiner vormaligen, bunten Familie - seiner Frau Aschera, selbst eine Göttin des Bodens, und ihren begabten Kindern, dem wilden Baal, der promisken Astarte, der Jägerin Anat und dem Meeresgott Jam - erscheint als Sysiphosarbeit.
Shlomo SandStichwörter: religion monotheismus polytheismus
... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...
Jonathan EdwardsStichwörter: religion revelation
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
John K. BrownStichwörter: philosophy religion spirituality prayer contemplation mediation
He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.
John CalvinStichwörter: religion prayer holiness-of-god
Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis.
Pamela ChristianStichwörter: truth religion faith spirituality certain-hope confident-faith
O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let me
wear a Walkman...
Stichwörter: god religion bible
Both porn and religion distort a person’s perspectives on women.
Jesse DangerouslyStichwörter: women religion misogyny porn jesse-dangerously
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