Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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.
The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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