Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Bede Griffiths

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Bede Griffiths

This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

B. R. Ambedkar

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

B. R. Ambedkar

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Billy Corgan

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Alfred Hitchcock

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Anita Ekberg

I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.

Muriel Rukeyser

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

John Steinbeck

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

Jonathan Demme

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

Owen Feltham

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Thomas Hood

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

Celine Dion

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

Brett Ratner

I fear God and respect God and love God.

Petrarch

I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue.

Doc Watson

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Deepak Chopra

Eat, breathe, meditate and love and you're all set

Alphonsus Liguori

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Edward McKendree Bounds

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

Alan Jackson

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.