Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"Justice represents the crown of Man's moral development – what might be called 'wisdom become flesh'."
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Love is the foundation, the meaning, and the purpose of the world."
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"Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together."
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"Just as the human being needs the air to breathe for his physical life, so he also has need of breathing in God – through prayer and meditation – for his soul life."
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"Faith is not simply a matter of holding something to be true but of experiencing the breath of eternal God, bestowing being."
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"The moral law inscribed in the human soul – Kant's categorical imperative – signifies the reality of the presence in the human being of what the Bible calls the 'image and likeness of God', that is, the principal archetype of Man."
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"Love is the self's life element, its substance, and its power of growth."
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"The solemn majesty of the starry heaven proclaims the presence – the all-pervading presence – of the holy Being underlying the universe."
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"As an idea, the resurrection is the realisation that God is divinely generous, that he does not take away again what he has once given and granted, but that his gifts – existence, consciousness, freedom, and creative activity – are valid for all eternity."
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"It is only in love that freedom is perfect."
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"The state of the risen Jesus Christ is the goal and the hope of the path of destiny of mankind. It is the most perfect ideal of which one could ever think or dream."
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"There are many levels of freedom. But the highest is that of love."
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"Through the world of temporal existence there streams the breath of the presence of eternal being."
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"The breathing of the breath of life is the kernel of the human being, eternally coming into being from God."
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"Intuition is the faculty of knowledge which results from instinct that is illumined by reason."
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"Not only Genesis, but also the Bhagavad Gita, speaks of the law of repeated impulses of the divine spirit intervening in order to maintain the level of intensity of the original life-impuse of the world."
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"Love is and remains for all time the sanctuary of freedom."
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"Oneness or unity encompasses all numbers, and all numbers should be reduced back to unity."
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"God wills it that man may fulfill his earthly experience and task, even when they have been interrupted by death."
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""It is impossible for a peaceful and concentrated reader (i.e., for a meditative reader) of the Gospels not to begin to love the person of Jesus Christ, and also not to sense him as a working and actual reality."
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"The spiritual life of mankind is maintained through the breath of the Spirit…and the great religions of mankind are quite conscious of this fact."
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