religion

"Novalis was cried down as an enthusiastic mystic by the prosaic, and Spinoza as godless by the literalists. It was incumbent upon me to protest against this view of Spinoza, seeing I would review the …"

"All the money you made will never buy back your soul."

"Perhaps, a return to the philosopher who is Deleuze's unsurpassable point of reference will help us to unravel this ambiguity in Deleuze's ontological edifice: Spinoza. Deleuze is far from alone in hi…"

"Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India. Here is a vast peninsula of nearly two million square miles; two-thirds as large as …"

"Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion."

"Review : "Markings - the spiritual diary of Dag Hammarskjöld"

"We put things in order — God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."

"I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet."

"I did a lot of soul-searching before going public. I was concerned there might be some type of Waco or Jonestown event."

"Marcion, who recognised no other Gospels than a few Epistles of Paul, who rejected totally the anthropomorphism of the Old Testament, and drew a distinct line of demarcation between the old Judaism an…"

"In its extreme form self-awareness manifests itself in notions such as that of the soul, but in simple form it merely means to be aware of oneself as an individual among others."

"verything is the work of imagination, and... all the faculties of the soul can be correctly reduced to pure imagination..."

"Has the contemporary church been so captivated by the images and methods of the consumer culture that it has forfeited its sacred vocation to be a countercultural agent of God's kingdom in the world?"

"If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?"

"“Because we write fiction we mine our souls. Of course you put yourself into your fiction, your fiction is you."

"See, the bliss and the joy which this Bridegroom brings in His coming are fathomless and incommensurable, for He Himself is that bliss and joy. And therefore, the eyes with which the spirit contemplat…"

"With God there are only individuals."

"Séances lost their popularity with the invention of infrared photography when it became possible to see what mediums were doing in the dark. Nowadays, spiritualists’ fakery is more ambiguous and subtl…"

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

"Your theology has taught you to believe that any religion, to be perfected, must be so at the sacrifice of the physical form or powers. Hence, the ancient religionists confined themselves within the c…"