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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: empathy religion understanding

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies
each with two hundred billion stars
then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

Ron Patterson

Stichwörter: christianity god religion animal-sacrifice

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Donald Barthelme

Stichwörter: religion uncertainty physics modernity

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.

Laurence Moore

Stichwörter: religion religious mormonism lds self-invention baffled ethnic-group how-it-happened mormon singular

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Stichwörter: religion

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Martin Buber

Stichwörter: man religion exile

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Graham Greene

Stichwörter: religion humanism catholicism

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

Isabel Allende

Stichwörter: humor religion humans

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.

Isabel Allende

Stichwörter: religion