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“The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”

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Author:Jessie Sampter

“The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.”

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Author:Mark Thomas

“Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.”

“The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.”

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Author:Meister Eckhart

“The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.”

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Author:Friedrich Schleiermacher

“Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.”

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Author:Morris Raphael Cohen