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“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.”

Has Beens Spirituality Goal Religious Compassion Keys Easier Enlightenment Tests Doctrine Conformity Setting Goals Stressed Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

Philosophy Body Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Individual Religious Deals Doctrine Metaphysics Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.”

Spirituality Obvious Doctrine Abstract Vehicle Proven Trustworthy Old Soul

Book:Clapton: The Autobiography

Source: Clapton: The Autobiography

“Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.”

Mean God Truth Spirituality Theory Absolutes Bounds Doctrine Ideology Buddhist Interfaith Absolute Truth Interbeing

Book:Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake

Source: Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake

“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.”

Kind Soul God Spiritual Spirituality Stuff Religious Accepting Nice Doctrine Guidance Rejects Cnn Wasteland Walmart

Author:Alain de Botton

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

Knows Men Spirituality Doctrine Idiot Cynical Preaching Untrue Demagoguery

Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy

“But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.”

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Book:True Spirituality

Source: True Spirituality

“In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.”

Source: True Spirituality

“The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.”

“The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.”

Christian Spirituality Individual Social Justice Commitment Social Justice Doctrine Parallels Christian Doctrine

Author:Jim Wallis