Merely Quotes

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If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say… — Sam Storms
After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in… — Nirmala Srivastava
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and… — Douglas McGregor
Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of… — Robin Hahnel
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth)… — Rabindranath Tagore
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also… — Paulo Freire
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is… — Phillips Brooks
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body… — Neale Donald Walsch
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life… — Jean Baudrillard
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of… — Vaclav Havel
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook… — Sakyong Mipham
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. — Thomas Dreier
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca the Younger
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. — Robert Bolt
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate… — Stephen Jay Gould

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