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by Hagoth » Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:35 am
Today I understand that Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who does not participate enthusiastically -Robert Kirby
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” – Christopher Hitchens
"Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't." -Leo Buscaglia
I first found faith, and thought I had all truth. I then discovered doubt, and claimed a more accurate truth. Now I’ve greeted paradox and a deeper truth than I have ever known. --Anon
"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous." --Voltaire
If we achieve only a fraction of enlightenment and leave the world marginally better because we have lived in it, our lives will have been worthwhile. ~Karen Armstrong
"....creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in it's place. It is rather climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting-point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part our our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventures on the way up." -Albert Einstein
It is not good enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. --David E. Price
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway” - Eleanor Roosevelt
"...and be secure in knowing that what's in our heart today, may be wrong, or based on incomplete info or lack of experience.... because we are free to change our minds both about what we feel and what is right." - Soultana Nolidis
"Be grateful for your doubts.... It is the tension, the irresolution, the ambiguity and perplexity of [our] predicament that is the spur to [our] growth.... It [is] in the midst of [our] perplexity, of [our] obstinate questions, uncertainties, misgivings, and shadowy recollections that almost but don't quite pierce the veil, that [we find] the prompt, the agitation, the catalyst that [spurs us] from complacency to insight, from generic pleasures to revelatory illumination, from being a thing acted upon to being an actor in the quest for [our] spiritual identity. I know that I am grateful for the propensity to doubt, because it gives me the capacity to freely believe." - Teryl Givens
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” -Bertrand Russell
"To trust your mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem." - Dr. Nathaniel Branden
“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.” -George Carlin
" If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't there would be more peace." -John Lennon
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -Mark Twain
Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." The Buddha: "Be your own light."