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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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"Live your human task in the liberating certainty that nothing in the world can separate you from God's love for you." Brakkenstein Community of Blessed Sacrament Fathers, Holland, 'Rule for a New Brother'
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"Where people are praying for peace the cause of peace is being strengthened by their very act of prayer, for they are themselves becoming immersed in the spirit of peace." John Macquarrie, 'The Concept of Peace'
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"The best prayer is not that which feels most, but that which gives most." Fr. Andrew, 'A Gift of Light'
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"Wherever there is a bit of colour, a note of song, a grace of form, then comes the call of our love." Rabindranath Tagore, 'Sadhana'
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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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"To apprehend the one in the many constitutes the special character of love." Ernst Troeltsch, 'Christianity and Other Religions'
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"He who sees the Infinite in all things, sees God." William Blake, 'Poetry and Prose'
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"Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile." Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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"God is seated in the hearts of all." Bhagavad Gita
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"The prayer of the heart is the source of all good, which refreshes the soul as if it were a garden." St. Gregory of Sinai
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"Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is subject to destruction." Bhagavad Gita
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"All shall be well and…All manner of thing shall be well…When the tongues of flame are in-folded…Into the crowned knot of fire…and the fire and the rose are one." T. S. Eliot, 'Little Gidding'
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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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"Heaven means to be one with God." Confucius, 'Analects'
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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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"The way through to the vision of the Son of Man and the knowledge of God, which is the heart of contemplative prayer, is by unconditional love of thy neighbor, of the nearest THOU to hand." Bishop John Robinson, 'Honest to God'
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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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"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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"There is no power on earth like imagination." Laurens van der Post, 'Venture to the Interior'
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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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"That which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul." Bhagavad Gita
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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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"Father, into Thy hands I give the heart which left Thee but to learn how good Thou art." George MacDonald
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"The great world of light lies behind all human destinies." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'To A Child'
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"Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind." Eden Philipotts, 'A Shadow Passes'
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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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