religion

"I strongly believe in a God-given right to self-defense."

"God is a witness that cannot be sworn."

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"Every nearest to Divine presence is given spiritual acumen in proportion to his proximity to Divine sanctuary."

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."

"My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on."

"We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul."

"Between God and man there is and remains an eternal, essential, qualitative difference. The paradoxical relationship appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority, in relation, be it …"

"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

"If no law of God had prohibited idols to be made by us; if no voice of the Holy Spirit uttered general menace no less against the makers than the worshippers of idols; from our sacrament itself we wou…"

"The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations wi…"

"If it be heaven toward which we journey, it will be holiness in which we delight; for if we cannot now rejoice in having God for our portion, where is our meetness for a world in which God is to be al…"

"A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden."

"I DON’T KNOW IF YOU HAVE EVER LUNCHED WITH A VEGETARIAN. Probably you have. If you live in San Francisco you have. Then you’ve seen Dominic, his hand raised, fingers slightly crook’d to summon a waitr…"

"It gave me extraordinary pleasure to fling at the pundits their own contradictions and Thus perplex Them. It also gave me the reputation, among our neighbours of being a clever speaker. I believe that…"

"On the Argument from Degree: "That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness. Ther…"

"In the primitive church were not prayers simple, unpremeditated, united; prayers of the well-taught apostle; prayers of the accomplished scholar; prayers of the rough but fervent peasant; prayers of t…"

"The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara."

"Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—…"

"This food of love draws the soul above distinction or difference, beyond resemblance to divine unity. This is what happens to the transfigured spirit. When the divine heat of love has drawn out all th…"