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To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.
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To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.
The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?
The most beautiful and stirring adventure that can happen to you is the personal meeting with Jesus, who is the only one who gives real meaning to our lives.
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
I watched the faces of the listeners when the minister would cry out how much God loved them and how much they needed to set themselves right with God. They were faces without any argument in them, just tired faces that were glad to hear Somebody loved them.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
A God who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.