We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
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“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“Love is the river of life in the world.”
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”
“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
More Religion Quotes
“At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two”
“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.”
“Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.”
“In this situation, what we call natural ethics has nothing to offer but the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think one is better than others. This is where ethics based on religion enters the scene with its promises of a better life hereafter. I am inclined to think that, for as long as virtue goes unrewarded here below, ethics will preach in vain.”