“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.” NeedsGivingPersonsSelfPlayHelpingCareEarthChristianChristCommunityReligiousRolesClearTreePlanetsCreaturesUniqueGardenRiversCrossesDestructionSpeciesNeighborScriptureForestsStreamsSoilProvidingOxygenOur PlanetEdenGarden Of EdenReligious Person Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.” WorldYearsBelieveSaidChristianYoungReligionValuesReligiousCommonCreaturesYears AgoPerfectionIslamRepeatsReligious Values Author:Pope John Paul II
“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.” IfsMenMayReasonUseWishUnderstandingReligiousSubjectsOne DayCreaturesCapableGloryPraiseVainNo ReasonBlessVoidCrownsGlory Of GodGlorifyPraise God Book:Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea
“Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.” WarSoulDoneBodyReligionNamesReligiousChristianityBrokenCreaturesCatholicInnocentBurningCivil WarWheelsDividedDelicateVirginsLimbsFuryEgotismTorchesPuritanCelibacyRacksInquisitionIniquityMonasteriesSoul And BodyFerocitySpaniardsReligious Wars Author:Ouida
“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” IfsMenPeaceReligiousAnimalDealsCompassionCreaturesAbuseFellowsPityCrueltyThought ProvokingVegetarianAnimal RightsShelterFellow ManHumaneVegetarianismWildlifeFurAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveLove And CompassionAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal CompassionDog RescueAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseCruel WorldAnimal TestingWildlife ConservationInspirational AnimalAnimals In NatureKindness To AnimalsAnimal RescueNature And AnimalsHuman CrueltyFranciscansHumane SocietyWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsAnimal ConservationFlora And FaunaAnimals And SocietySmall CreaturesWildlife And NatureAbused AnimalsAnimal Shelter Author:Francis of Assisi
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.” ReligiousJusticeDarknessPoetCreaturesWoundsBillionsOne TimeDriftingReligious Experience Author:Graham Hawkes
“What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!” IfsKnowsMenWorldGodTodayForceReligiousKnow HowForeverTomorrowCreaturesWeakDestructionFellowsCreatorKneesMeritHeelsTormentRepentSectsInconsistentFrailInfamous Author:Marquis de Sade