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  • We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Compassion Quotes
  • The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Religious Quotes , Father Quotes
  • My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ahmet Ertegun Quotes , Religious Quotes , Father Quotes
  • I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Religious Quotes , Political Quotes
  • I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Religious Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Army Quotes