religion

"We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism."

"I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy."

"I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall."

"This contemplation establishes us in purity and in limpidity above all our understanding, for it is a special enrichment and a heavenly crown, and in addition, an eternal reward for all virtues and fo…"

"Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wil…"

"Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world."

"To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance."

"And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?"

"The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing it…"

"I don't believe God would give you something that you wouldn't be able to use for his glory," Carrol said. I don't believe you have to compromise who you are as a person in order to do what God has ca…"

"I doubt not but the fire illuminating heaven on Michelmas eve was seen there – such as I never saw for the time more fearful. God sendeth us such signs but for our erudition."

"In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are ca…"

"Was Tolstoy justified in interpreting the Sermon on the Mount in anarchistic terms? The answer cannot be found in isolated texts or combinations thereof, but rather in consideration of the basic eleme…"

"Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to tim…"

"The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works."

"The system should treat all user input as sacred."

"The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world."

"There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion — I am God — cannot be made with regard to the sense-world."

"“Grief like anything else – like a stone – is content only; God gives us the form, that serenity, purity and self-possession with which to surround and live grief."

"When the soul has arrived at this state all the acts of its spiritual and sensual nature, whether active or passive, and of whatever kind they may be, always occasion an increase of love and delight i…"