The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsHow did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? |
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... Things Considered (1908) 14 There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard ... thing alien to us. It has to be evolved out of us. It is always within us: with some consciously so; with others, quite ...
... things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite, into one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915) ...
... things in common: 1. their obsession with the origin and the beginnings of religions; 2. their taking for granted that the beginning was something 'simple and pure'. Of course, the evolutionists and the romantic-decadentists understood ...
... things there is not one that does not worship Tao and do homage to its power. Tao Te Ching, LI 10 Says Kabir, I have told them and so have Brahma and Mahesh— #8212;Ram's Name is the essence of Reality; such is my teaching for all! S kh ...
... things existing in the universe to which the term one is applied is like unto his unity. Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (1170–80) 5 That which is One the sages speak of in various terms; they call it Fire, Death, Wind. Rig Veda, 1, 164 ...
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II THE SUPERNATURAL | 37 |
III THE NATURE OF GOD | 51 |
IV THE UNIVERSE | 76 |
V HUMANITY | 89 |
VI THE SACRED | 97 |
VII SACRED PERSONS | 105 |
XI SPIRITUAL EXERCISES | 151 |
XII RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY | 164 |
XIII RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY | 189 |
XIV VIRTUE AND THE GOOD | 205 |
XV MORALITY | 225 |
XVI MEN AND WOMEN | 246 |
XVII SOCIETY | 263 |
XVIII LAST THINGS | 291 |
VIII SACRED WORDS | 120 |
IX SACRED ACTIONS | 128 |
X SPIRITUALITY | 136 |
TEXT AND AUTHOR INDEX | 318 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 330 |
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