"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy……" — Khalil
"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
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24 Quotes by Khalil
Khalil has 24 quotes on this site.
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I have met the soul walking upon my path.
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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct…
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind…
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The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life…
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I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must…
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words…
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the…
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Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to…
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Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow…
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and…
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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know…
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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