A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
