#religious

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16 ↗

— John Apostle

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Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#sacraments #marriage

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

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دين الإسلام لم يمت ولن يموت .. لأنه وضع للبشر لم يكلفهم فوق طاقاتهم ولم يطالبهم بالمستحيلات .. ولم يدعهم إلى المثاليات .. لا يقول :كونوا ملائكة ولا يقول : أنتم شياطين , بل يقول : كونوا بشراً لكن صالحين ! ↗

— محمد الصوياني

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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible. ↗

— Felicia Martin

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Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

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