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“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

Form Religion Effort Christianity Successful Information Discovery Majority Alternatives Orthodox Massive Blasphemy

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.”

Humans Art Religion Values Effort Creative Human Life Imaginative

Author:Karen Armstrong

“All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.”

Religion Natural Results Effort Flower Summer Rain Rejoice Diamond Spontaneous Sparkle True Religion Summer Rain

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”

Years Firsts Has Beens States Religion Church Effort Study Regard Practicals Thirty Reasonable Thirty Years Programmes Free State

Author:Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”

World Should War Use Today Christian Religion Given Women Effort Violence Holy Sexuality Mythology Approved Frantic Christian Right Holy War

Author:Riane Eisler

“What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.”

Art Stills Form Religion Effort Aspect Chaos Graves Immortal Isolated Insignificant Mold Art And Science Unified Omnipotence

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

Life Giving Humans Littles Science Religion Universe Levels Money Effort Education Grace Atheism Morality Tragedy Lifts Human Life Stubborn Nonconformity Farce Science Physics

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

Truth Religion Effort

Book:The First and Last Freedom

Source: The First and Last Freedom