religion

"The Jews ... primarily see in God not the universal Creator but their Liberator."

"If Christian mysticism and its goal, ecstasy, is the contact of man with God through a leap from human nature to divine nature, national mysticism is nothing other than the contact of man and crowds w…"

"Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?"

"At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to …"

"ight language enlarges the soul as no other power or influence may do."

"The prayer of Ajax was for light."

"I believe that all men, whatever their religion or lack of it, pass on into another phase of being, to another class in God’s school."

"No, we don’t have faith in reason and science in the same way as “Cru” members have faith in God. I see “faith” according to Walter Kaufmann’s definition: strong belief in propositions for which there…"

"Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. Th…"

"“We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit."

"Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his so…"

"God have mercy on his miserable soul! and make him see and feel his guilt — I ask no other vengeance! If he could but fully know and truly feel my wrongs I should be well avenged, and I could freely p…"

"A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows."

"You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?"

"I took care of the depth of my relationship with God and He took care of the breadth of my success."

"Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhor…"

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"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage—an inexorable demand—that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants."