Religion and spirituality

Cinderella

Once there was a widower who married a proud and haughty woman as his second wife. She had two daughters who were equally vain. By his first wife, he had had a beautiful young daughter who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The Stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter to complete all the housework. When the girl had done her work, she sat in the cinders, which caused her to be called "Cinderella". The poor girl bore it patiently, but she dared...

Happiness

Happiness is an emotion associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy. A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources.Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this older sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimoni...

10 Quotes by Confucius

Confucius, whose name literally means "Master Kong", lived 551-479 BCE. He was a Chinese thinker and philosopher, whose teachings have deeply influenced not only Asian thought and life. He presented himself as a "transmitter who invented nothing" and he really pointed out the importance of learning, which is one reason he is seen by Chinese people as "The Greatest Master". One of the best known sources of Confucius are The Analects, a collection of his teachings, which was co...

One Catholic Priest Destroyed the Entire Mayan Wri...

The New York Times described the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphs as "one of the great stories of twentieth century scientific discovery." Tragically, this decipherment was only necessary because of a one-man Spanish Inquisition, a deliberate, decades-long campaign by a single Catholic priest to destroy the Mayan language and culture. The priest, Diego de Landa, wiped out all knowledge of the written language, and nearly destroyed the spoken language too.

Customer Service Calls to God

Support Rep: Good afternoon. Thank you for calling God. This is Reshawnda speaking. How may I assist you today? Woman Caller: (Distraught) I-I need to speak to God. Support Rep: I'm sorry, everybody does. Perhaps there's something I can assist you with? Woman Caller: M-My father... he's... in a coma. Support Rep: Okay. May I get your ID number, ma'am? Woman Caller: What? I don't have... Support Rep: It's on the back of your bible. Woman Caller: (The receiver is jostled. Pau...

Dr. laura answers some questions regarding Christi...

Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other specific Biblical laws and how to follow them.

The Holy Bible

Religion it's a necessary evil. Fun it's just necessary. Holy Bible warnings. "Bible refers to respective collections of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity. The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew or Jewish Bible. It comprises three parts: the Torah ("Teaching", also known as the Pentateuch or "Five Bo...

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