Religious Thought 270

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you. To see this chair you first see God, and then the chair in and through Him. He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

- Vivekananda

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Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you. If, like a cracked gong, you silence yourself, you have already attained Nibbana: no vindictiveness will be found in you.

- Dhammapada 133-134

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You see throngs of afflicted feeble folk seated at the door in ardent hope. O you who are crushed, your pleas have been heard. Hark! Rush toward the mercy of God and be delivered of pain.

- Rumi

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“God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. ”

- Billy Graham

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

- Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics"

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