It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy… — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
The system that keeps cosmic beings in a bullshit frame of mind of what existence is to make money off them, use… — Giuseppe Andrews Copy Share Image
Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State - to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image