"In the persistent advance of consciousness towards always more spontaneous and finally reflective forms, we have an objective element, allowing us to follow, through and beneath all complications of detail, the continually ascending advance of a single fundamental greatness."
The Vision of the Past - Pierre Teilhard deChardin
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"See yourself in others, then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
American Theosophist, The
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"The life of virtue [is] a climb from the many to the One." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica' 1-2, 71, 1 (13th century)
The Book of Catholic Quotations
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"Throughout it all the great themes of righteousness or duty, of love or devotion, of truth in word, thought, and deed, of reward and punishment or cause and effect or action and reaction, of self-sacrifice, generosity, hospitality, remain the basic seeds of all civilizations, are present in all religions and are as fundamental and vital today as ever before." Jeanine Miller, 'The Relevance of the Vedas to Modern Man'
The American Theosophist
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"God made all things to be helpful for virtue." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
Alexandrian Christianity
(John E. L. Oulton, editor)
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"God…built a law of truthfulness into His world even as He built in a law of gravity, so that if we violate either one, we suffer the consequences."
Who Needs God
(Harold Kushner)
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"We are to work steadily and softly to plant in our lives the values of the Kingdom: the integrity of the earth; the dignity of human persons in body, in mind, in spirit and in community; justice; wisdom; peace."
A Retreat With St. Bonaventure
(Leonard J. Bowman)
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"The key to the redemption of the social system lies in the victory of divine law in the being of individuals. What the individual becomes, the collective world is."
Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"The open heart is the garden in which the medicinal plants of core values grow. These plants include love, forgiveness, compassion, empathy."
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"Humility, obedience, simplicity – these are the virtues on which the divine friendship, as well as human friendships, alone can thrive." R. H. Benson, 'Christ in the Church' (20th century)
The Book of Catholic Quotations
(John Chapin, Editor)
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"Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the acknowledgement and homage given to God and a worship of thanksgiving. It is cooperation with the plan God pursues in history."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
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"The moral law is universally and equally binding on all persons….the moral law commands us to respect the dignity of the human person, ourselves and others alike,"
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
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"The highest wisdom is kindness." The Talmud (ca. 500)
The Quotable Spirit
(Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)
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"Confucius and Mencius maintained that the very core of the truly good life is a life lived in obedience to the moral law and in the awareness that the moral law is grounded in the Eternal."
The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions
(August Karl Reischauer)
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"Ethics are no mere human convention; morals are rooted in the very fabric and stuff of universal nature herself."
Wind of the Spirit
(G. dePurucker)
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"By kindness alone can man ratify the fact of the unity of Life."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
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"The health and the happiness of all sentient beings depend upon their mutual, humane relationship. We are all dependent upon one another for our well-being, progress, fulfilment."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"We as individuals can undertake to cultivate our intuitive nature and so develop moral insight." Gertrude Reif Hughes, Introduction
Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom
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"At the moment in which man realizes that he is embedded within the total organism of the earth…at that moment there exists an objective basis for morality." Rudolf Steiner
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"Light is given to the sun not to shine alone on itself but also on the whole earth. So too, God wills that all our gifts of wealth, power, knowledge should benefit others." Thomas Aquinas, In 2 Cor, ch. 1, p. 301
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"He [Black Elk] related that Buffalo Calf Woman said:…'You must always remember that the two-leggeds and all the other peoples who stand upon this earth are sacred and should be treated as such.'"
One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality
(Stephen Harrod Buhner)
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"The moral life is a spiritual worship."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
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"We are spiritually responsible for each other and we are meant to discover and nurture the divine that exists within each person."
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"The idea of 'hybris', individual imprudence…runs through the philosophical as well as religious thinking of all high civilizations. There is a moral law, and it must be obeyed."
The Flight of the Wild Gander
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Only if God is reinstated in the heart of the world will he furnish mankind and its leaders with ethical guidance through the dangers and pitfalls of the space age." Wernher vonBraun
Living Quotations for Christians
(Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)
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