Thomas S. Monson Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Father Quotes

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treachero us mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father.

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Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

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Tags : Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

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Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Prayer Quotes

What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

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Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Religious Quotes

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , College Quotes

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

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