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I believe religions are derivative of truth leading to the same notion. They’re guides all our ancestors had for countless generations and the reason has been subtracted from our lives, which has left us with this void that we’ve filled with materialism.
My last break up was so tough I started going to church again so I could be around other people waiting for a man to come back.
After all — by some beautiful, random, completely unfathomable chance, your consciousness appeared. And it will disappear.
It’s okay to feel sad about something that’s broken, in other words, but that doesn’t mean you’re the one who has to fix it. You need to really experience this sadness and welcome it into your life and ask it to show you things. You need this sadness and longing to show you how to be a person with r…
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition, religion, and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.
Though the concept of virginity is arguably over-precious, difficult to define and socially constructed to fit heteronormative religious and commercial directives that come with a host of problems, losing it can still be a jumping off point into the abyss of what you desire.
Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…
The fall is something that we create within ourselves. We've built this avatar of who we're supposed to be, and that eventually crumbles and we see who we really are and what all of this really is. That's a painful but such a beautiful experience, and such a necessary journey.
I always thought faith was a transaction and God was this transactional thing, this guy in the sky that would give good people things, and you eventually get to the end of that idea. If you really think about your belief, you will run to the end of that. It will break apart at some point. That's not…
I didn't have this laundry list of things I did that made me feel like a good Christian, but in the center of my heart, I felt within and around that God was with me and I was with God.
I’m trying to live in the way of love and the way of Jesus the best I know how. I know I don’t have it all right, but I love the way of Jesus. I don’t have a definition for that.
I’m so grateful for the tragedy of losing faith because I think it was a necessary path. It was a path we had to be on.
We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and shortsighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually yo…
— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Mark Baum, Steve Carell, imdb.com
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
Gabe Lewis: Erin, I am in love with you. I don't believe in much, okay? I don't believe in horoscopes. I don't believe in Christmas. I sure as hell don't believe in God. Erin Hannon: What? Gabe Lewis: Or maybe there's a God, I don't know. It's just not a guy with a long, white beard. Or it could be.…
I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me.
Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God.
We all have sins. All of us are searching for forgiveness.
— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Pastor Ramon Cruz, Giancarlo Esposito, imdb.com
The Scholar: Tell me, brother, what is the greatest Jihad? Christian Aumont: To kill the unbelievers in battle. The Scholar: No. Christian Aumont: No? The Scholar: The Holy Profit, peace be upon Him, said that war against the unbelievers is the lesser Jihad. The greatest Jihad is to battle you own s…