Religion-Jugglery and God-Discovery
1.
— Joseph Parker: Ecce Deus
Swami Vivekananda once said that only another Vivekananda could have realised what this Vivekananda had done. Napoleon also said something in this vein. Alas, I too sail in their boat when I bury my head, with ceaselessly brooding disappointments, inside my palms.
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— Henri Frédéric Amiel: Journal
If there is an iota of truth in this conviction-statement, then all the Christians in the world must needs muster together to defend themselves.
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— George E. Failing: The Wesleyan Methodist
I wish to say that unreality is made but reality is born.
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— David O. McKay
True Hinduism is surrender of action. True spirituality is the pendulum between the heart's tears and the soul's smiles.
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— Hugh C. Burr
He who said, "I and my Father are one," definitely had become our Lord before He became our Saviour.
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— Lord Byron
Lovingly and devotedly, I have something to add: man the God was made of streaming tears; God the man was made of blossoming Smiles.
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— Clement of Alexandria
Our ignorance-flooded mind can easily reverse the course!
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortunately, the disciples of all Masters have the same universal experience.
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— Jean de La Fontaine: Fables, VI
Indeed, to God the needy in all human beings, with no exception.
10.
— William Blake
True, absolutely true. Also, something more to add: God is God-Appointment, God is God-Enlightenment and God is God-Fulfilment.
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— Wendell Phillips
My divinity is a reality-beauty-dream and a reality-beauty-fragrance, and not a battlefield-reality.
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— Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire, O mighty controversy-confusion-mind, your mind's Himalayan bravery and your life's weakness-slavery shall forever remain inseparable.
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— Mary Ellen Chase: New York Times
Absolutely true. Just a little to add: Christmas is humanity's dream-preparation-beauty and Divinity's Reality-Perfection-Fragrance.
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— Anonymous
Likewise, humanity's God-worshipping heart-shrine has innumerable critics, but no rivals worth mentioning.
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— St. Augustine: De Symbolo
St. Augustine, my heart believes in you implicitly. Therefore I am so happy that I shall never lose my parents.
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— Emil Brunner: The Westminster Press
A church exists by God-remembering as a fire exists by self-sacrificing.
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— August Strindberg: Zones of the Spirit
All atheists are incomplete God-preparations, and all incomplete God-preparations are atheists.
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— Bankers Bulletin
I believed God was only mine, but my accomplishment has far surpassed my belief. Now I see that God is for all.
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— William James: Pragmatism
In the matter of self-styled faith, we are all exorbitantly creative.
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— Livy: Annales, V, 51
Adversity reminds men of their crying heart-beauty and, at the same time, of their smiling soul-fragrance.
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— Old Testament: Isaiah 48:10
Many choose God after the volcano-explosion of their vital.
22.
— Emmanuel Swedenborg
Punishment is the beginning of enlightenment.
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— Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
Poor me! In my case, Heaven is dying to help me, but my stupidity is preventing me from accepting Heaven's help.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte
The battalions are just an expression of God's earthly Power; but His Heavenly Power is Illumination.
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— Samuel Johnson
I am glad that I need God in everything and for everything.
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— William Combe: Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
I may not be good. I may be bad in everything that I say and do. Yet I have left my very existence with Heaven for its use.
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— Jean Paul Richter
Humanity is never so beautiful as when it offers a gratitude-heart-smile to God.
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— Aristotle
What is a friend? The beauty and fragrance of interdependence.
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— Egyptian Proverb
Although I have found God as my only Friend, He tells me that I shall remain incomplete unless I find Him in everybody else.
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New Testament: Acts 10:34"
True, God is no respecter of persons. It is equally true that God is a perfect slave to His supremely chosen instruments.
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— Saadi
I fear God, and next to God I fear the person who, on the spur of the moment, tells me that he and his inner life and outer life will depend entirely on me.
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— Voltaire: La Loi Naturelle: Exordium
God did exist before, but we did not have the vision-eye to see Him. God does exist now, but we do not have the aspiration-heart to feel Him.
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— Spinoza: Ethica IV
When I cry for God the Creator, He comes to me as God the creation as well. He fulfils Himself as the One in the many.
34.
— Aristotle
My mind obeys God from fear. My heart obeys God from love. I obey God from my inseparable oneness-discovery.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte
May God's Empire be founded inside my soul-smiles and my heart-tears.
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— Anonymous
When I seek God's Greatness, He gives me His majestic Smile. When I find God's Goodness, He asks me to be His Eternity-Infinity's Partner.
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— Agathon
Not because He cannot, but because He does not want to change the past, for it is unnecessary. Our Goal is the Golden Shore and not the ocean-dangers.
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— Leslie D. Weatherhead: This Is the Victory
To me, the opposite of joy is unwillingness.
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— J.R. Cohu: The Bible and Modern Thought, V
The outer Bible tells us how to go to Heaven. The inner Bible shows us how to bring the Kingdom of Heaven down.
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— Emmanuel Swedenborg
Division is God's absence from man.
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— Thomas Draxe: Biblioth, Scholas
The cross is the Heaven-ascending ladder. The non-acceptance of God's Will is the abysmal abyss-descending ladder.
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— Anonymous
God Himself has asked me not to explain Him but to entertain Him.
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— Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok
Death does not think so. Death thinks that death is all-powerful.
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— Robert Browning
He who doubts most, fractures all his limbs most.
45.
— English Proverb
God's Compassion-Eye and God's Forgiveness-Heart are where they were before.
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— Anonymous
I am all ready to answer this question, but God wants me to keep my mouth sealed. Never mind, since I am always a God-disobedient creature. If God loved me as much as I love Him, then I would be playing, singing and dancing inside my totally isolated mind-jungle.
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— English Proverb
God has saved me from my friends. God has even saved me from my enemies. But, alas, He has not saved me from myself, so far.
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— Anonymous
I praise God for both the thorns and the roses, because I clearly see and feel that thorns are my God-preparation-journey and roses are my God-satisfaction-goal.
