All Quotes By Tag: Religious
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”
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“من عيب حب الذكر أنه يحبط الأعمال اذا أحب عاملها أن يذكر بها, فكاد يكون شركا, لأنه يعمل لغير الله – عز وجل -, وهو يطمس الفضائل لأن صاحبه لا يكاد يفعل الخير حبا للخير لكن ليذكر به.”
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“When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!”
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“Grace is a free sacred gift from God.”
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“Amida’s unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)”
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“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality”.”
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“The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.”
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“But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God’s most difficult promise has been kept.”
“Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.”
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“Tie me up, please…” Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he had to comply.A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest—Brett could hardly contain his elation.”
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“Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.”
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“We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God’s Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.”
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“Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.”
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“Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/”
“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”
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