“Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.” DoneRealityBeliefLeftFeltReligiousRegretBurdenGuiltyAnxiousSlipsBelief In GodInadequacyReligious Life Author:Karen Armstrong
“There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindLongHas BeensRealWholeHumanityReligiousPrejudiceBurdenWhole WorldGloriousReliefSpheresSuperstitionsHorrificReligious Prejudice Author:Isak Dinesen
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.” PeopleSoulOrderUniverseEvilReligiousRiskHumourDutyBurdenInnocentBuddhistAcquireAccumulationHazardsSectsDiscworldReligious Sects Book:Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12) Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.” KnowsLittlesHelpingHumorSchoolReligiousMillionsBabyBearsMadCourtBurdenGods WillInnocentThrowingSquaresCourt System Author:Jerry Falwell
“Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.” InspirationalHumansChristianSpiritualReligiousRaceHolyBurdenScriptureHuman RaceOrthodoxAfflictionHealedHoly Scriptures Author:Saint John Chrysostom