“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?” WaySelfDreamBodyEarthGoalSpaceAnimalConsciousnessEnemyKindnessAirCreationDivineWalkingHolyTreatsNeighborOur TimeOur DreamsCompetitorsDreams And GoalsWalking Through Life Book:The Healing Power of Kindness Source: The Healing Power of Kindness
“At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.” MindWellsHeartMayLittlesNightSleepAnimalMorningToo MuchHolyBedUnderstoodScriptureHoly ScripturesRemnants Author:Martin Luther
“Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the Lord.” MenWorldMayBodySpiritDesireAnimalLordSubjectsThis WorldHe ManBrotherHolyGrantedObedienceBeastWild Animal Book:Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
“It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.” BelieveDoneWould BeChristianCertainAnimalViewsNumbersTreeFeetCenturyHolyScientistSacredPlantEnvironmentalBoardsReverenceStewardshipDoubtfulAcresWaterfallsDissection Author:Wes Jackson
“Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.” MenHeavenReligiousAnimalPathBrotherHolyTasksGlobesGraveyard Author:Mark Twain
“The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.” MenFeelsSoulActionSpiritAnimalCreativeHolyFruitMeritHoly SpiritSolidarityBrethren Author:Pope John Paul II
“Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.” HumansTwoChristianValuesAnimalHolyConflictAreasConcernSeparationProfaneHumans And AnimalsChristian Values Author:Dennis Prager
“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” WantMotherFatherAnimalComedyHolyEmptyFartTauntingHoly GrailMontyHamstersTroughAnimal FoodBest ComedyComedy MovieGreat Comedy Author:Graham Chapman
“I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.” AnimalAcceptingHolyAuthoritySacredVegetablesTrinityMineralsHoly Trinity Book:Leap Source: Leap
“But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.” PeopleKnowsMenFeelsLooksLittlesAnimalSkyHolyFellowsCloudsSpreadCombinationBeastFellow ManUnstableHoly Man Author:H. G. Wells
“Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.” MenSelfMatterReligionHateCausesSidesChurchReligiousAnimalSourceHolyCreaturesRejectionEtcDespiseDedicationConfinedPreoccupationAccessoriesMalady Book:The Passionate State of Mind Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.” MenHumansMayBookBodySpiritGrowsAnimalSunHolyMirrorsShiningHuman SpiritBountyHoly BooksAnimal Spirits Author:Abdu'l-Bahá