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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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