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Kansas is going bye-bye Dorothy.
~ Cypher
“Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know
something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it… That there’s something wrong
with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a
splinter in your mind.”~ Morpheus
Let me give you one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows more than you can imagine.
~ Trinity
Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has
anything to do with my muscles in this place?
~ Morpheus
Man is what he believes.
~ Anton Chelehov
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~ Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its
beauty? It’s genius? Billions of people just living out their
lives… oblivious.
~ Agent Smith
The unexamined life is not worth living.
~ Socrates
Sooner or later you’re going to realize, just as I did, that
there’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking
the path.
~ Morpheus
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real. What if you were unable to wake
from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
~ Morpheus
I’m dreaming of Zion, awake.
I can’t stop sleeping awake.
~ P.O.D.
What is “real”? How do you define “real”?
~ Morpheus
The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
~ Kirkegaard
You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to
wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth.
~ Morpheus
The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber,
because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
~ Romans 13:11 (TNIV)
The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber,
because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
~ Romans 13:11 (TNIV)
The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber,
because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
~ Romans 13:11 (TNIV)
The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber,
because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
~ Romans 13:11 (TNIV)
Religion:
any system of rules, regulations, rituals, and routines that people use
to get right with God.
Religion:
any system of rules, regulations, rituals, and routines that people use
to get right with God.
Religion =
Lit., “a return to bondage”
Religion =
Lit., “a return to bondage”
Deisidaimonia = Lit., “dread of demons” and refers to pagan religion as an oppressive superstition.
Threskeia = ceremonial worship of a deity; refers to any externalization of someone’s internal beliefs, whether positive or negative.
Deisidaimonia = Lit., “dread of demons” and refers to pagan religion as an oppressive superstition.
Threskeia = ceremonial worship of a deity; refers to any externalization of someone’s internal beliefs, whether positive or negative.
If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are just
fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and lasting religion
in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and
widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us.
~ James 1:26-27 (NLT)
If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are just
fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and lasting religion
in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and
widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us.
~ James 1:26-27 (NLT)
Religion God Accepts:
i) being hopeful rather than hurtful in our words,
ii) being helpful rather than harmful in our actions,
iii) being willing to take a counter-cultural stand in our daily life.
Religion God Accepts:
i) being hopeful rather than hurtful in our words,
ii) being helpful rather than harmful in our actions,
iii) being willing to take a counter-cultural stand in our daily life.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
~ Galatians 5:6 (TNIV)
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
~ Galatians 5:6 (TNIV)
The antidote to organized religion
is not disorganized religion,
but organized irreligion.
The antidote to organized religion
is not disorganized religion,
but organized irreligion.
Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For
everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door
will be opened.
~ Matthew 7:7-8 (NRSV)
Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For
everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door
will be opened.
~ Matthew 7:7-8 (NRSV)