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Spiritual Quotes
"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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"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
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"You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat."
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"When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called 'absolute ultimate love' [paramarth prem]!"
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
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"Christian life consists in faith and charity."
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"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."
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"God has been FAITHFUL to me, in Him I have FAITH."
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"Faith is a question of eyesight, even the blind can see that."
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"If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy."
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"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."
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"Learn to live in the heart's conscious, not the mind's."
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"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me."
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"I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead."
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"He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free."
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"When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it."
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"It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation."
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"The bond of love between wonderful souls is divine."
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"The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe."
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"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth."
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"You are a child of the universeCome to choose how to live here.You are a child of the universeLoved beyond measure."
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"No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me."
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"Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not. They can be helpful if used wisely, but are neighed the sign of enlightenment nor the requirements for enlightenment. These can includes extrasensory perception (sometimes called ESP), remote viewing, or "miraculous" healing. However, the essence of enlightenment, above and beyond all phenomena, is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is."
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"It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him."
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"Excluding the God of providence in your life's configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system."
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"Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom."
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"The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time."
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"Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life."
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"Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul."
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