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Christianity Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which…
- We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a…
- The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.
- Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ at…
- Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet…
- Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say…
- All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil.…
- People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do…
- I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were…
- Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
- The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
- The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
- We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God…
- They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.
- Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a…
- Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
- When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to…
- We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state…
- When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's…
- The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something…
- In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can…
- Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.
- The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the…
- They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for.…
- Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's…
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