Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"Where people are praying for peace the cause of peace is being strengthened by their very act of prayer, for they are themselves becoming immersed in the spirit of peace." John Macquarrie, 'The Concept of Peace'
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"Prayer takes the mind out of the narrowness of self-interest, and enables us to see the world in the mirror of the holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'The Essence of Spiritual Living'
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"Heaven means to be one with God." Confucius, 'Analects'
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"O Thou who art at home deep in my heart, enable me to join you deep in my heart." The Talmud
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"All shall be well and…All manner of thing shall be well…When the tongues of flame are in-folded…Into the crowned knot of fire…and the fire and the rose are one." T. S. Eliot, 'Little Gidding'
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"I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul." Robert G. Ingersoll, 'Life of Robert G. Ingersoll'
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and therefore brothers." Martin Luther King, 'Strength to Love'
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"The parent of the universe fixed for eternity the causes whereby He keeps all things in order." Martin Luther
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"Timelessness is so much a part of you, of me, we cannot hope to find the self until aware of our eternity." Angelus Silesius, 'The Book of Angelus Silesius'
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"Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile." Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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"Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind." Eden Philipotts, 'A Shadow Passes'
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"Sheer joy is His [God's], and this demands companionship." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Theological Texts'
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"Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life." Thomas Merton, 'The Sign of Jonas'
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"The presence in Nature of so many phenomena requiring intelligence for their appreciation implies a kindred intelligence to produce them." Sir Ambrose Fleming, Presidential Address to the Victoria Institute, March 18, 1936
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Martin Luther King, 'The Words of Martin Luther King'
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"Wherever there is a bit of colour, a note of song, a grace of form, then comes the call of our love." Rabindranath Tagore, 'Sadhana'
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"Seek contact with Him now in the goodness and splendour which is in other people." Evelyn Underhill, 'The Letters of Evelyn Underhill'
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"All mankind is born for perfection, and each shall attain it, will he but follow his nature's duty." Bhagavad Gita
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"The prayer of the heart is the source of all good, which refreshes the soul as if it were a garden." St. Gregory of Sinai
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"God creates out of the absolute superabundance of his mercy and love." Fr. George Florovsky, Collected Works, vol. 3
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"God is as present as the air." Michael Hollings, 'Day by Day'
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