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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
"Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty."
— Brené Brown
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
— Saint Augustine
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
— Anne Frank
"If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know."
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
"When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish."
"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
— William James
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
— William Cowper
"Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding."
— Willa Cather
"In the faces of men and women I see God."
— Walt Whitman
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
— Václav Havel
"El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda."
— Umberto Eco
"God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so."
— Toni Morrison
"The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily."
— Thomas Merton
"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."
"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."
"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."
— T. S. Eliot
"He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart."
— Swami Vivekananda
"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"
— Stephen Hawking
"to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
— Søren Kierkegaard
"For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon