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God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. Susan B. Anthony
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. James Baldwin
People who want to share their religious views with you, almost never want you to share yours with them. Dave Barry
God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? Martin Buber
Goodwill towards all is true religion. From the Buddhacarita
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Richard Francis Burton
H.H. the Dalai Lama:
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" Annie Dillard
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Robert A. Heinlein:
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.
God is love. Love is blind.....
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
Perhaps most people say their is no God simply because they would then have to stop and think that what they are doing may be wrong.
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1. Helplessness is not only a lack of strength and power. Many strong and talented people are seen as helpless, because nobody ever thought to benefit from them.
2. Neither "darkness" nor another light can defeat those whose light comes from themselves. Such sources of light will burn throughout their natural lifespan in spite of everything, and will illuminate their surroundings.
3. Those who act according to what they have seen are not as successful as those who act according to what they know, and the latter are not as successful as those who act according to their conscience.
4. Poverty is not only the lack of money, for it can assume the form of a lack of knowledge, thought, and talent. In this respect, wealthy people who lack knowledge, thought, and talent can be considered poor.
5. Glasses are a vehicle for the eyes, the eyes are a vehicle for the mind, the mind is a vehicle for insight, and insight is a vehicle for the conscience. The conscience is an outlet through which the spirit can observe, and a vehicle through which it can see.
6. Humanity is a tree, and nations are its branches. Events that appear as heavy winds hurl them against each other and cause them to clash. Of course, the resulting harm is felt by the tree. This is the meaning of: "Whatever we do, we do it to ourselves."
7. Nights are like arenas in which people discover, develop, and prepare for human happiness and serenity. Great ideas and works always developed in the womb's darkness and were offered for the benefit of humanity.
8. The stomach expels food that cannot be digested and has no benefit, and then spits in its face. Time and history does the same to useless people...
9. Rust is the enemy of iron, lead the enemy of diamonds, and dissipation the enemy of the spirit. If it does not cause its decay and ruin today, it will definitely cause them tomorrow.
10. Every flood comes from tiny drops whose existence and size are neglected. Gradually, it reaches a level that cannot be resisted. A society's body always is open to such types of flood.
Pearls of Wisdom or Philosophy Written by Fethullah Gülen
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence Bertrand Russell
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus
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weird kitty- If you want the answer to Epicurus questions ask the lady who called on you for the brochure entitled "Does God Really Care About Us" the subquestions are "If so why does he permit suffering , will it ever end?"
All the questions are answered -and the answers are the only ones that make sense - they are one of the main reasons why I became a Witness.
Check it for yourself.
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Even if explaining knowledge and truth to the ill-mannered and inexperienced is as difficult as dealing with crazy people, enlightened people must do so eagerly.
Since everyone cannot understand clear truths on the same level, abstraction was abandoned in favor of demonstration, representation, and personification.
People usually complain of time and space, whereas the fault always lies in ignorance. Time and space are innocent, whereas humanity is ungrateful and ignorant.
Some sunny, grassy, bright roads adorned with flowers eventually lead to valleys of death, while other steep, thorny paths intersect with the edge of Heaven.
One of the wisest sayings is: "Each person is hidden under his or her tongue." An even greater one is: "If you want a friend, God is enough; if you want a companion, the Qur'an..."
We know the act and object of perception, but not the perceiver. The spirit knows; the mind is a vehicle. The spirit sees; the eye is a vehicle.
If an action results from mental or natural instincts, it is animalistic; if it results from the will or conscience, it is spiritual or human.
Non-existence is a dreadful nothingness, such an infinite and mind-boggling field that not even one atom of existence can be found there.
Today, people label as "fanatical" those who are devout. Fanaticism means insisting on false and blind persistence. Insistence on what is right is a virtue, and such behavior by a believer cannot be considered fanaticism.
Sometimes the sun appears in an atom, a flood in a drop, and a book in a sentence. For such a profundity, the eye (meaning sight) is as important as the word. BY F.GULEN
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