ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS QUOTATIONS
Frank S Mead, editor
12,000 quotations from all faiths and all times
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"All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Mary Baker Eddy, 'Science and Health'
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"I sought my soul – but my soul I could not see; I sought my God – but my God eluded me; I sought my brother – and found all three." Anonymous
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"Being is holiness, harmony, immortality." Mary Baker Eddy, 'Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures'
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"Let the Divine Mind flow through your own mind, and you will be happier….I speak from my own experience." Cecil B. DeMille
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"In God's will is our peace." Anonymous
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"Holiness is the symmetry of the soul." Philip Henry
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"Man is a soul formed by divine ideas, and bodying forth their image. His mind is the unit and measure of things visible and invisible." Amos Bronson Alcott, 'Tablets, II'
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"God of the granite and the rose, Soul of the sparrow and the bee, the mighty tide of being flows through countlesss channels, Lord, from Thee." Elizabeth Doten, 'Reconciliation'
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"How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven." George Macdonald
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"Never to judge rashly; never to interpret the actions of others in an ill-sense, but to compassionate their infirmities, bear their burdens, excuse their weaknesses, and make up for their defects – to hate their imperfections, but love themselves, this is the true spirit of charity." Nicolas Caussin (1582-1651)
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"Everything that lives is holy." William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'
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"Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbits and the tides." Charles Henry Parkhurst, 'Sermons: Pattern in Mount'
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"God acts the part of a Geometrician….His government of the world is no less exact than His creation of it." John Norris, 'Practical Discourses'
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"Prayer is the recovery of the soul's breathing." Gerald Heard, 'The Christian Century'
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"On the imagination God sometimes paints, by dream and symbol, the likeness of things to come…Each is the yearning of the soul for the great Beyond, which attests our immortality." Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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"The great soul of this world is just." Thomas Carlyle, letter to Thomas Erskine
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"Nature is the living, visible garment of God." Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe
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"Of a truth we are mystically united; a mysterious bond of brotherhood makes all one." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Cicero, 'Oratio Pro Cneao Plancio, XXXIII
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"God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation – a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth." George Macdonald
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"Love is God's essence." Richard Garnett, 'De Flagello Myrteo', IV
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"Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God builds up His living temple." Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 'Holiness'
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"You must recognize as brothers and sisters all who live; and free to will, free to act, free to enjoy, you shall know the worth of existence." Richard Wagner, 'The Creative Force'
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"The heavens above, and the procession of the seasons as they month by month walk among the stars, are various manifestations of God." Henry Ward Beecher
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"The universe is a thought of God." Johann C. F. vonSchiller, 'Essays: Aesthetical and Philosophical', Letter IV
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- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
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