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Quotation For The Soul
By peace | July 25, 2007
The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one’s self is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neigbour’s fault like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides an unlucky cast of the die. ~ Buddha
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma life; but what are called “common men and women” have increased it. ~ Phyllis Bottome
Religion seeks a love beyond any love that has ever developed between human associates. It seeks a love which, so far as human association is concerned, is only a possibility. But precisely because religion does afford a vision of the possibility, it stimulates love-making between parent and child and David and Jonathan and man and woman to the end of achieving more love between humans. And love-making is one of the great arts of living. ~ Henry Nelson Wieman
Great evil has been done on earth by people who think they have all the answers. ~ Ruby Plenty Chiefs
To know but one religion is not to know that one. In fact superstition consists in this one thing — faith in one religion, to the exclusion of all others. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise. ~ Charles Bates
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. ~ Anya Seton
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Too many people think religion consists
in what they do for God –
those poor, puny, pitiful things
they sometimes manage to do for Him.
Consequently, they find all of religion
poor, puny and pitiful
and they trudge along joylessly
But religion consists
in what God does for us –
those great, stupendous things
He dreams up for us.
~ Louis Evely
“Religion” can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than “education” can be reduced tTo what happens in schools or “healthcare” restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches. ~ Harvey Cox
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