All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
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