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“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."”

Thinking Want Kind Done Remember Given Practice Happened Land Holy South Israel Palestinian South Africa Apartheid Being Done Anti Semitic Holy Land Checkpoints

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.”

People Looks Spirit Certain Process Views Practice Gone Atheism Holy Positive Atheism Tongue Point Of View Scales Rational Piano Get Better Holy Spirit

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”

“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.”

“The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.”

Men Church Practice Taught Duty Holy Conscience Scripture Revelations Implications Holy Scriptures

Book:SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.

Source: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.

“Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.”

People Mean Soul Reason Body Together Practice Teaching Holy Calling Yoga Endeavor

Book:We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Source: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.”

Knows Doe Hard Moments Spirit Space Attention Practice Holy Filled Holy Spirit Inches Presence Of God

Author:John Ortberg

“We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.”

Two Christian Practice Holy Members Committed Access Jerusalem Shrines Two Religions

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.”

Should Spirit Sleep Practice Holy Holy Spirit Preacher Presence Of God Gale

Author:Brother Lawrence

“We need to be acquainted with the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and we need to practice and apply gospel teachings until they become natural and automatic. These promptings become the foundation of our testimonies. Then our testimonies will keep us happy and safe in troubled times.”

Needs Natural Practice Teaching Holy Safe Foundation Ghost Testimony Holy Ghost Troubled Times

Author:Allan F. Packer

“To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.”

Enough United Practice Teaching Holy Convince

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Spirit Sound Practice Return Holy Doctrine Holy Spirit Revival Reformation Sound Doctrine

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you”

Important Moments Spiritual Life Is Pleasure Practice Holy Spiritual Life Presence Of God God Is With You

Author:Brother Lawrence