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Image Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the…
- The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form…
- As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are…
- Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay,…
- Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.
- The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
- Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form…
- We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is…
- Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but…
- There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you, all the…
More Image Quotes
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon
- Science is but an image of the truth. — Francis Bacon
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks