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Spiritual Quotes
"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom."
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"Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
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"It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world."
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"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
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"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
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"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
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"Resign your destiny to higher powers."
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"The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite."
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"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."
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"Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn't learn a thing. God doesn't bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?"
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"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
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"Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion."
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"Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."
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"Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land."
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"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."
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"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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"You are the universe - that's why it shines!"
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"To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing."
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"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them."
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"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."
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"Christian life consists in faith and charity."
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"In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative."
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"All of creation expands and evolves."
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"As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation."
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"In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."
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"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
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"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
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"God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return."
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"The bond of love between wonderful souls is divine."
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