religion

"Religion is essentially universal. If God is our common Father, His truth is our common property. But the religious world may be likened to a vast market, where every religious sect sells only a porti…"

"The word "God," so "capitalised" , is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience."

"The task for which God has appointed me is that I should remove the malaise that afflicts the relationship between God and His creatures and restore the relationship of love and sincerity between them…"

"Religion is better described than defined and better felt than described. But if there is any one definition that latterly has obtained acceptance, it is that of Schleiermacher, to the effect that rel…"

"Oh, my God, I miss those things"

"I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."

"John:  We're all like zombies.  The spirits inside our souls are dead, thanks to Adam."

"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."

"God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?"

"In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality."

"...To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible."

"Open your hands, ye Whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that…"

"One widely held unstated assumption is the Great Chain of Being. It defines the venerable position of humans as the exact center of the universe in the middle of the Chain of Being below God and above…"

"Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the ene…"

"The general data on 11th-century Kashmir already militate against treating him as a typical Hindu king who did on purely Hindu grounds what Muslim kings also did, viz. to destroy the places of worship…"

"“Sultãn Ahmad… encamped near Chãmpãner on 7 Rabî-us-Sãni, AH 822 . He destroyed temples wherever he found them and returned to Ahmadãbãd."

"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."

"The cult of the Virgin, Mariolatry, which by the gradual elevation of the divine element in the Virgin has led almost to her deification, answers merely to the feeling that God should be a perfect man…"

"Above all things I wish God's glory and next the queen's safety."

"Act I of Waiting for Godot"