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“Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.”

Love Feelings Wish Grows Religious Compassion Growing Tree Empathy Enlightenment Seeds Buddhist Cherish Sympathy Love And Compassion Affectionate Sowing

Author:Je Tsongkhapa

“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.”

Thinking Firsts Feelings Lost Wish Religious Existence Clear Youth Chains Paradise Primitive Thinking God

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.”

Should Wish Religious Wealth Progress Perfection Lust Devotion Snares Religious Devotion

Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

“More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.”

World Believe Made Feelings Reality Eye Spiritual Choices Wish Religious Decision Levels Moral Issues Conviction Wide You Choose Naive Moral Issues Eyes Wide Open

Author:Jim Wallis

“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.”

“Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.”

People Thinking World Stills Real Feelings Wish Religious Healing Believer Poetry Is Transforming Save The World

Author:Carol Muske-Dukes

“If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.”

Ifs Doe Mother Wish Christ Religious Brother Mary Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Immaculate

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.”

Giving Mean Wish Religious Blessed Salvation Devotion Virgins Virgin Mary

Author:John of Damascus

“There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.”

“I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.”

Wish Religious Insult

Author:Martin Rees

“The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.”

Ifs Men Writing Wells Feelings Problem Would Be Age Today Wish Natural Religious Audience Reader Novelists Encounters Sentimental Sentimentality Credible Insurmountable

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.”

Inspirational Humans Soul Wish Religious Levels Consciousness Destiny Comfort Responsible Instant Human Soul Commendable

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.”

Speak Wish Religious Scientist Decay Exes Religious Faith

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.”

Ifs Men Children Has Beens Country Remember Evil Winning Wish Religious Millions Constitution Our Country Wrath Men Women Inquisition

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”

World Love Wells Soul Christian House Wish Religious Pity God Love

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend