When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our
hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside
us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps
forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
Sitting meditation is not, as is often supposed, a
spiritual exercise, a practice followed for some
ulterior object. From a Buddhist standpoint, it is
simply the proper way to sit, and it seems
perfectly natural to remain sitting so long as
there is nothing else to be done, and so long as
one is not consumed with nervous agitation.
- Alan W. Watts
The Way of Zen, 1957
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be
comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will
of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth
praying for.
- Samuel M. Shoemaker
You are never dedicated to something you have
complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting
that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it
is going to rise tomorrow. When people are
fanatically dedicated to political or religious
faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's
always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I won't take my religion from any man who never
works except with his mouth
- Carl Sandburg
Depend on it. God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supply.
He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and
He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
- J. Hudson Taylor (China Inland Mission)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or
a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I
possess to the poor and surrender my body to the
flames, but have not love I gain nothing Love is
patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is
not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they
will cease; where there are tongues, they will be
stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass
away...And now these things remain: faith, hope
and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied, it is the most
potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook
Prayer is light; charity is a proof; patience is illumination;
and the Quran is an argument for or against you.
Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul, either
freeing it or bringing about its ruin.
--Mohammed
Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers
in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about.
--Mohammed
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
- Mahatma Gandhi
[Mahatma] India nationalist, spiritual leader
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any
success, whether it be in your profession, your
family, or as in my case, in basketball, from
religion.
- John Wooden
1910-, American Basketball Coach
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