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MACMILLAN DICTIONARY OF RELIGIOUS QUOTATIONS
Margaret Pepper, editor
A totally ecumenical selection of over 4,000 notable quotations spanning the world's major religions, from classical times to the present day.
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"Ideas of what is right and wrong vary from age to age and from place to place, but the significant thing is that there is a distinction between right and wrong. The inner compusion to do right and the shame we feel when we are aware of having done wrong are an experience of God." Leslie J. Tizard, 'Facing Life and Death'
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"We can in our own little lives be utterly certain that God always has an alternative, in which the one purpose for which we are here may be fulfilled, if other ways fail." Fr. Andrew, 'The Way of Victory'
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"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?" Igor Stravinsky, 'An Autobiography'
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"Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile." Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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"Timelessness is so much a part of you, of me, we cannot hope to find the self until aware of our eternity." Angelus Silesius, 'The Book of Angelus Silesius'
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"I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul." Robert G. Ingersoll, 'Life of Robert G. Ingersoll'
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"We are called to be a great living cloth of gold with not only the woof going from God to man and from man to God, but also the warp going from man to man." Baron Friedrich von Hugel, 'The Mystical Element in Religion'
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"The prayer itself is the essence of the Godhead." Rabbi Pinhas of Korez, 'Hasidism'
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"He knew behind all creeds the Spirit that is one." Andrew Lang, 'Herodotus in Egypt'
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"He who knows his own self knows God." Mohammed
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"Prayer takes the mind out of the narrowness of self-interest, and enables us to see the world in the mirror of the holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'The Essence of Spiritual Living'
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"Sheer joy is His [God's], and this demands companionship." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Theological Texts'
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"God creates out of the absolute superabundance of his mercy and love." Fr. George Florovsky, Collected Works, vol. 3
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"The parent of the universe fixed for eternity the causes whereby He keeps all things in order." Martin Luther
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"There is no power on earth like imagination." Laurens van der Post, 'Venture to the Interior'
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"Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another." Isaac Penington, 'The Art of Living'
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"A man consists of the faith that is in him. Whatever he is, his faith is." Bhagavad Gita
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"The great world of light lies behind all human destinies." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'To A Child'
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"Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force, so beautifully exemplified in the life of our Christ, is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security." Martin Luther King, 'The Words of Martin Luther King'
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"To apprehend the one in the many constitutes the special character of love." Ernst Troeltsch, 'Christianity and Other Religions'
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"God is as present as the air." Michael Hollings, 'Day by Day'
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"Seek contact with Him now in the goodness and splendour which is in other people." Evelyn Underhill, 'The Letters of Evelyn Underhill'
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"O Thou who art at home deep in my heart, enable me to join you deep in my heart." The Talmud
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"There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties." Jean-Pierre deCaussade, S. J., 'Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence'
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"The presence in Nature of so many phenomena requiring intelligence for their appreciation implies a kindred intelligence to produce them." Sir Ambrose Fleming, Presidential Address to the Victoria Institute, March 18, 1936
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This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
organized in terms of 39 primary categories. Quotes are randomized and appear in a different way at every click.
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We include
- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
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