Agnivesh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
-- Agnivesh

#World #Interfaith
The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
-- Agnivesh

#God #Adventure #Destiny
The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
-- Agnivesh

#God #Empowerment #World
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;
-- Agnivesh

#God #Essence #Joy
...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.
-- Agnivesh

#God #Spiritual #War
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
-- Agnivesh

#God #People #Today
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.
-- Agnivesh

#Spiritual #Order #Justice
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
-- Agnivesh

#Compassion #Justice #Humanity
We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
-- Agnivesh

#Play #Goal #Achievement

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.

Agnivesh famous quotes

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