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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Metaphor.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
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Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
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.
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
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
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
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
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 you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:24
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
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
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
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
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Christmas ... is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
God has no religion.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bold Light of Spirit:
Out of the darkness and into the light,
Open our eyes and behold such a sight.
Brilliance of day takes the place of the night,
Boldness and courage are swords of His Might.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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