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• The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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• My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Smart, People, Dumb

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• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.70, Library of America

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Life, Change, Happiness

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• A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

  N. T. Wright

  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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• We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Mother, Nature

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

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• People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications

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• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Couple, Eye

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• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Life, God, Religious

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• A scholar has to know a little of everything.

  Jules Verne

  Littles, Knows

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Learning, Heart, Dark

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• Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

  George Sarton

  Teacher, Humility, Years

  George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Book, Reading, Knowing

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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