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What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Service
Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
Men admire the man who can organize
their wishes and thoughts
in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only things one can admire at length
are those one admires without knowing why.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
God has no religion.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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