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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"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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"He who sees the Infinite in all things, sees God." William Blake, 'Poetry and Prose'
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"Give rest to the weary, visit the sick, support the poor, for this also is prayer." Afrahat, the first Syriac Father
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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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"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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"Heaven means to be one with God." Confucius, 'Analects'
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"God is as present as the air." Michael Hollings, 'Day by Day'
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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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"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?" Igor Stravinsky, 'An Autobiography'
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"To apprehend the one in the many constitutes the special character of love." Ernst Troeltsch, 'Christianity and Other Religions'
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"Father, into Thy hands I give the heart which left Thee but to learn how good Thou art." George MacDonald
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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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"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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"Sheer joy is His [God's], and this demands companionship." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Theological Texts'
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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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"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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"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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"God creates out of the absolute superabundance of his mercy and love." Fr. George Florovsky, Collected Works, vol. 3
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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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"The parent of the universe fixed for eternity the causes whereby He keeps all things in order." Martin Luther
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"That which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul." Bhagavad Gita
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