religion

"It is not the profession of religion which creates the obligation for the performance of duty; for that existed before any such profession was made. The profession of religion only recognises the obli…"

"Where religions fail, cults appear."

"It is of primary importance to attune with God through prayer, worship and the chanting of God's holy names … Then God Himself will give you good guidance."

"Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain."

"The worship of the “Great Mystery” was silent, solitary, free from all self-seeking. It was silent, because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect; therefore the souls of my ancestors ascende…"

"And the reason why they were to keep the Sabbath was because the Creator rested on the seventh day—not period. If you say six periods, instead of six days, what becomes of your Sabbath? The only reaso…"

"The bareness and cruelty and misery of this generation now cry aloud for God-saturated and Jesus-challenged deliverers."

"Let me remind my readers that the term divine did not originally imply the existence of gods: on the contrary, gods were constructed to interpret man's experiences of this quality."

"The forgetting of all things and of one's self, combined with contemplation, makes a man divine"

"Is it not plain that the law of good will has a universal application? There is no event, no act, no word, no supreme crisis of life in which man may let the good will go, and turn on the forces of il…"

"The Tao, he reminds himself, is older than God."

"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them of clay, in the wa…"

"It is remarkable that whilst the Doctors of the Sorbonne were urging Francis the First absolutely to suppress printing even as late as 1533 and whilst this enlightened monarch had actually issued lett…"

"“Pray for those you send, shield them by prayer."

"I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns …"

"While the abominable pope with his spiritual peace and evangelic peace, this despot, marched to make war on his own kindred with might and main - the man of peace, too, and disciple of the Man of Peac…"

"Surrounded by countless people who murmur my name and call me 'maître', I am about to inaugurate the exhibition of my one hundred illustrations of the Divine Comedy at the Galliera Museum."

"They yeelde Divine honours to divers of their deceased Saints, and build Temples unto beasts. One of which hath large Porches, and hath seven hundred Marble Pillars not inferior to those of Agrippa in…"

"I am alone. There is no God where I am."

"A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they’re leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people."