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Religion Quotes
"Our competence comes from God's grace."
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"The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream."
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"It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ."
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"Only with grace, can we reach the goal."
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"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."
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"Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery."
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"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."
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"Oh God your love is so overwhelming!"
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"What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion, or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That's all. Only these two are religion."
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"Inevitably, mistakes are going to happen, sin is going to win a round or two in the battle of life, but there is always, always, always a way back because Jesus Christ has our backs."
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"It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals."
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"Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being."
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"When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution."
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"Real christians always forgive before they are asked for forgiveness."
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"Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma]. Science is to transcend religion and non-religion."
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"Criticizing anyone is tantamount to criticizing their worship or devotion (aradhana). It is a grave mistake. It is fine if you cannot support someone, but do not criticize them at all. If there is any criticism, then there is no science of the Vitarag Lords [the enlightened ones]; there is no religion there at all, there is no oneness at all."
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"Your life is not determined by a problem, but by God, He is the source of victory."
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"Christ's public life extended only over three years, and for this he had been silently training his mind for around thirty years. For years he had been breaking all the sociologically imposed ties of religious fundamentalism. For years he had been working in solitude to become liberated from the manacles of dogmatic bondage. And it is in the solitude that legends are born, and idiots are born in packs."
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"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."
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"If we ask a random orthodox religious person, what is the best religion, he or she would proudly claim his or her own religion to be the best. A Christian would say Christianity is the best, a Muslim would say Islam is the best, a Jewish would say Judaism is the best and a Hindu would say Hinduism is the best. It takes a lot of mental exercise to get rid of such biases."
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"It is better to be redeemed than to be rich."
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"Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance."
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"For your heart to be filled with God's love is to forgive easily."
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"Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins."
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"Live every day in the full expression of God's grace in this coming year."
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"Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there."
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"Those who are called by God are predestined for victory."
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"All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak's spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense."
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