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Monk Inspirational Quotes (1885)

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The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.
Martin Luther
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Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
Swami Vivekananda
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Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.
Swami Vivekananda
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther
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A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is I cannot stand it, and that component is enhancing pain so much.
Matthieu Ricard
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All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
Swami Vivekananda
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
Martin Luther
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This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.
Swami Vivekananda
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
Martin Luther
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Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
Marcus Eremita
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... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.
Niketas Stethatos
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. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.
Swami Vivekananda
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
Swami Vivekananda
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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. Written, perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.
Swami Vivekananda
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When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.
Hsuan Hua
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The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.
Swami Vivekananda
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Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love
Swami Vivekananda
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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less the same potentiality is in everyone.
Swami Vivekananda
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Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.
Macarius of Egypt
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Francois Rabelais
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
Martin Luther
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
Martin Luther
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If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.
Swami Vivekananda
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We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.
Swami Vivekananda
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