Holy Books Quotes

• The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mean, Perfection

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• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Memories, Book

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• Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Book, Men, Names

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Jan 13, 2013

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• Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

  Monica Crowley

  Book, May, Want

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• Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Atheist, Book

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.279, tredition

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• In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Book, Eye, Tree

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• ... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Book, Evil, Tests

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• Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

  Michael Skolnik

  Country, Book, Looks

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• The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.

  Zachary Taylor

  Education, Book, School

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• The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.101, Bethany House

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• ...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  Moses

  Book, Dust, Return

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• ...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

  Moses

  Book, Doe, Return

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• ... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I fear no evil, for You are with me...
  Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

  David

  Bible, Book, Shadow Of Death

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• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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• The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Book, Angel, Years

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.52, Penguin

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Frying Pans, Holy

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• Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

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• Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

  Kabir Bedi

  Girl, Book, Kids

  FaceBook post by Kabir Bedi from Nov 21, 2012

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• The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Men, Mind

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• The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Book, Long, Pakistan

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Holy, Made

  "Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

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• In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Book, Democracy, Important

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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