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“If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.”

Ifs Way Moments Wisdom Desire Religion Answers Despair Intense Islamic You Choose Timing Delayed Islamic Wisdom Supplication

Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.”

Moments Religion Belief Western Attraction Traditional Landscape Coincidence Sublime Belief In God

Author:Alain de Botton

“The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.”

Humans Littles Moments Religion Perfect Known Trouble Letting Go Necks Cosmos Description Almighty Epiphany Adrift

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.”

World Moments Religion Feminism Jew Feminist Synagogue

Book:Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective

Source: Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective

“Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.”

People Believe Moments Seems Religion Faith Universe Belief Understanding Religious Doubt Standards Religious Belief Presumptuous

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.”

World Moments Earth Spirit Religion Spirituality Realizing Expression Mountain Rivers Ancient Abiding Phenomenal Completeness Actualization

Author:Dogen

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”

“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”

People Knows Needs Ideas Ends Moments Happens Religion Compassion Sick No Idea

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berg

“In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.”

I Can Moments Hands Religion Religious Masters Sand Grain Leafs Fury Grains Of Sand

Author:Bob Dylan

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”

Ifs Soul Moments Body Might Would Be Law Religion Principles Break Temptation Convenience Steadfastness Mutiny Rigour

Book:Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition

Source: Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

Moments Religion Dies Growth Change Changed Illusion Crosses Climbs Dread Ruined Starting Anew Life Has Changed

Book:The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Source: The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue