Holy Books Quotes - Page 2

• We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Book, Tears, Trying

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• To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Daughter, Husband, Book

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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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• 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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• Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Art, Book, Giving

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• [The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Book, Listening, Religion

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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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• As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Order, Doctrine

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• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  Ramakrishna

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Together, Holy

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• ... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Book, Fate, Men

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• Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Book, Tablets, Holy

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• The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Animal, Men

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

  Moses

  Book, Doe, Return

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence. The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other. He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Eye, Reality

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• This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist, no harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mirrors, Discovery

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