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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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.
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
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
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
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
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
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
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
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
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
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
"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 never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
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
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
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