#Religion (Quotes)

[atheostic]

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you... and HE NEEDS MONEY!

George Carlin

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Lord of Majesty and Generosity; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, to learn what is actually going on behind the scenes in this world of good vs evil and what lies beyond the veil.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"She had some belief somewhere, never defined... The outward form was a matter of indifference to her. Yet she had some fundamental religion. It was as if she worshipped God as a mystery, never seeking in the least to define what he was.

And inside her, the subtle sense of the Great Absolute wherein she had her being was very strong... Through it all she felt the great Separator who held life in His hands, gleaming, imminent, terrible, the Great Mystery, immediate beyond all telling.

She shone and gleamed to the Mystery, whom she knew through all her senses, she glanced with strange, mystic superstitions that never found expression in English. But so she lived, within a potent, sensuous belief that included her family and contained her destiny."

-- D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915)

[sparklymiraclewonderland]

Jesus Is The Greatest Man In History

[jannwrites]

“I could not rationalize in my mind how God let good men die. I had gone to several…priests. I was sitting there with this one priest and said, ‘Father, I don’t understand this: How does God allow small children to be killed? What is this thing, this war, this bullshit? I got all these friends who are dead.’ … That priest, he looked me in the eye and said, ‘I don’t know, son, I’ve never been in war.’ I said, ‘I didn’t ask you about war, I asked you about God.”

Judith L. Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Vioence

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’.

[text id: i am too little, and too much, and never enough.]

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

Be so confident in God's plan that you don't even get upset anymore when things don't go your way.

[wocado]

Science and religion are not at odds ~ @AuthorDanBrown

Science and religion are not at odds.

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[coolchickblog]

Carry me up them stairs with my white socks on and my pretty song…🤍🎀🐇

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD. BUT I'M NOT SURE HE STILL BELIEVES IN US." // MUSINGS ABOUT GOD

Vi Khi Nao Fish in Exile // pinterest // Ada Limón The Echo Sounder, from "Lucky Wreck" // Mitski Bug Like an Angel // Margaret Atwood Half Hanged Mary // Ethel Cain American Teenager // Supernatural (2005-2020) cr. Eric Kripke // Elle Emerson Regarding the Röttgen Pietà // Yves Olade Belovéd // Kim Addonizio Wild Nights from "Tell Me" // Jensen McRae Machines // Supernatural (2005-2020) cr. Eric Kripke // Anna Kamienska A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (tr. Clare Cavanagh) // Tom Waits Day After Tomorrow // pinterest // Lauren Camp Upon Taking the Universe One Thing at a Time

[atheostic]

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

So, Where Are You Going?

We all have vision. We all strive towards an image or a goal. But it's not that someone has vision or no vision that makes the difference, the difference lies in how far it can reach. Your vision's reach could be this weekend, and that's about as far as it could get. It can be having a stable job and a happy family. It could be going as far being an old man looking at your grandchildren from a rocking chair. Allah Almighty doesn't criticize these visions in themselves, but He criticizes not seeing past them. In fact, Allah Almighty rhetorically asks us in Surah Al-Takwir this question by the end of the Surah's discourse:

A very profound question if we were to honestly ask ourselves. Almighty Allah is calling us to look ahead and reflect whether our perceived direction is really the only direction we are actually treading towards.

The irony here is that this is Surah Al-Takwir. The Surah that begins with the image of the sun losing its light, and stars falling out of place, and oceans flaring up. These are the catastrophic images before the commencement of the Day of Judgement. The universe collapses, and another one rises for Judgement. In essence, **Allah answered the question already: You are coming to Me**.

*That’s* where we are actually going. We look at our path, and we see perhaps we weren’t looking clearly all along. *Where did I think I was going?* Allah Almighty is essentially asking, why are you going around in circles, why don't you look at what's staring at you from far away.

A job, a family, old age and retirement aren’t just what’s awaiting us. *Allah is awaiting us*. And so, the questions implies preparation. Regardless of what we choose to perceive as our direction, straight or crooked, the destination is the same for each one of us. The destination of our Judgement is straight ahead.

فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ

So where are you going?

It's important to note that despite how scary this post might come off. We shouldn't be. Allah Almighty mentions in other places how people hope to meet Allah and the last day. If we are attempting to do the best we can, it's completely fine to hope for this event, it's not wrong. After all, this is potentially the day you meet your loved ones. The day our sadness and turmoil leave us forever. The day we finally meet Almighty Allah. So, why would we want to get distracted and think we're going elsewhere?

[incorrectbatfam]

Dick: What do rainbows mean to you?

Tim: Gay rights.

Stephanie: There's money.

Jason: The sign of God's promise to never destroy the whole Earth with a flood.

Damian: It is an optical phenomenon that separates sunlight into its continuous spectrum when the sun shines on raindrops.

[lucidloving]

Oscar Wilde // L. Munir, "Lazarus" // Gustav Klimt, The Kiss // @lucidloving // Take Me to Church—Hozier // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @lucidloving // Gustav Vigeland, Man and Woman // Caitlyn Sieh, "Mythology" // @lucidloving

[love-others-despite-differences]

[al-islam]

اللهم إني ظلمت نفسي ظلماً كثيراً ولا يغفر الذنوب إلا أنت. فاغفر لي مغفرةً من عندك، وارحمني، إنك أنت الغفور الرحيم.

Ya Allah, I have wronged myself a lot, and no one forgives sins except You. So forgive me with forgiveness from You and have mercy on me. You are indeed the Most Forgiving, Most Merciful! Ya Allah