Religion Quotes - Page 40

• Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

  John Wesley

  Love, Book, Reading

  In R. Southey 'Life of Wesley' (1820) ch. 16

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• Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

  Elbert Hubbard

  Desire, Unseen, Spirit

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Philistine”

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• I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Answers, Faces

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, War, Ambition

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Religious

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Where there is fear there is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There is no God and we are his prophets.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Prophet, There Is No God

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Philosophy, Doctrine, Assuming

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.130, Penguin

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• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.178

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• There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Comforting

  "Human Society in Ethics and Politics".

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• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Men, Competition

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Happiness, Quilts, Laughter

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Gun, Men

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• [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Mean, Order

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• Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

  Harper Lee

  God, Men, Tkam

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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• These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Morality, Praise

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

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• A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Atheism, Process

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• Hate the sin, love the sinner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Science, Atheism

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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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