T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“True reliability is built not only by following through, but by following through more than once on promises. Which is why it takes time to build trust. We need to see changed behavior in the person who harms us more than once.”
Source: Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
“True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.”
Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within
“True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”
“True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“True religion cannot thrive in hate, what thrives in hate, cannot be religion.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.”
Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy
“True religion is a love affair with the spirit within, not with the picket fences that we place around the spirit – true religion is a love affair with the spirit of universality within the human heart everywhere, not with an imaginary spirit in an imaginary heaven.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”
“True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.”
“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”
“True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.”
“True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.”
“True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.”
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
“True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.”
“True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.”
Source: The Idea of a University
“True religion is that which does not let you stumble.”
“True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.”
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.”
Source: Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind
“True religion is the realization of truth.”
“True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.”
Source: Gospel
“True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.”
“True religion reforms.”
“True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.”
“True religion should make people to seek redemption from sin.”
“True religion teaches people to do right things accordingly to commands of a righteous God.”
“True religion teaches people to do what is right.”
“True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.”
“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.”
“True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.”
“True religious cleansing is the purification of the soul of all impurities - not imaginary or textual impurities, but actual impurities, such as hatred, bigotry, prejudices, fundamentalism, dogmatism, xenophobia, and various other basically uncivilized content of mind.”
Source: A Push in Perception
“True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.”
“True religious myths … acknowledge transcendence and foment the openness - the faith - that is precondition to the final leap to freedom. They bring us to the edge of what can be achieved within the framework of language, space and time, priming us for grace.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“True remedy lies in repentance.”
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.”
“True repentance also involves reform.”
“True repentance always involves reform.”
“True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.”
“True repentance does not permit repetition.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.”
“True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.”
Source: Moses the Law-giver
“True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty;
and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.”
“True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“True repentance is a turning from sin . . . Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.”
“True repentance is renouncing the self-centeredness and embracing God-centeredness.
"My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. "Gal 2:20a”