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Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
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