51 Quotations Found

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Religion

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Religion, Wisdom

History is replete with examples of the devastating impact of those who promote intolerance and use rules to try to control a world that they will never know. More often than not, people [cling to] the dogma and basically mistake a set of rules for spirituality. Spirituality being your relationship with God, your relationship with a higher power, your relationship with something bigger than yourself. … [ Read more ]

Author: Jeff Tweedy | Subjects: Philosophy, Religion

To acknowledge the giftedness of life is to recognize that our talents and powers are not wholly our own doing, despite the effort we expend to develop and to exercise them. It is also to recognize that not everything in the world is open to whatever use we may desire or devise.

Author: Michael J. Sandel | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Religion

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Authors: 13th century sufi poet and mystic, Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Religion

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “thank you,” it will be enough.

Author: Meister Eckhart | Subjects: Gratitude, Religion

I wish to mourn perpetually the absence of what I love or might love. Isn’t that what religious people call the love of God?

Author: George Santayana | Subjects: Love, Religion

In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said—grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and … [ Read more ]

Author: Carl Sagan | Subjects: Math & Science, Religion

The idea was put forward in 1930 by a revered poet, Sir Mohammed Iqbal.

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Iqbal’s argument was like this. Islam is not only an ethical ideal; it is also a “certain kind of polity.” Religion for a Muslim is not a matter of private conscience or private practice, as Christianity can be for the man in Europe. There never was, Iqbal says, a specifically Christian polity; … [ Read more ]

Author: V.S. Naipaul | Subjects: History, Religion

He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature […] seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.

Author: Krishna | Source: The Bhagavad Gita | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Religion, Wisdom

In Middlemarch by George Eliot, Dorothea is speaking to Will about her simple life: “‘…I should like not to have so much more than my share without doing anything for others. But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.’

‘What is that?’ said Will, rather jealous of the belief.

‘That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what … [ Read more ]

Author: George Eliot | Source: Middlemarch (REF: Hold This Thought) | Subjects: Life & Society, Religion