“If Jesus had merely proclaimed, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” the religious leaders could have responded,… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
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“God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what the first organic cells… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Spiritual reading, discursive meditation, and prayer prepare our hearts for contemplation. Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
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“The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The lack of traces is the trace of his Perfect One. In the immensity of the strength of his spirit, compared to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
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“The thing that is unknown, yet known to be, will always be more or less formidable. When it is known as immeasurably… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In a remarkable letter to the director of the Vatican Observatory, John Paul II wrote: The church does not propose that science should… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Hungarian humorist Ferencz Karinthy captures the spirit of the situation best in a tableau about a bored businessman who amuses… — George Bailey Copy Share Image
“Religion is reassurance. It is community. It is the conductor that helps orchestrate our lives. It allows you to discover who you… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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“Perhaps there are events and things that work as a doorway into a mythical world, the world of first people, all the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You talk about piling up treasure - money, property, culture, knowledge, and so on and so on. In going ahead with the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true. The Church, as well as Puritanism, has fought the flesh… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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“Earth is currently transitioning into the Fourth Dimension. The climax of the upcoming Ascension will be felt towards the end of 2012… — Sufian Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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“Trial began on Friday, July 23, 1875... the jury which was finally selected consisted of eight Mormons, three Gentiles, and one Jack… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“as architect of choosing... choose. to. live. awakened. entirely. wholly. wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative, thriving. this is not a hoped-for… — LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier Copy Share Image
“DEVOTION TO GOD’S KINGDOM OVER SELF OR TRIBE ENABLES SACRIFICE People in a church with movement dynamics put the vision ahead of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Eating a meal in Japan is said to be a communion with nature. This particularly holds true for both tea and restaurant… — Victoria Abbott Riccardi Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite… — Śrī Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image