"Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven."

-- Robert W. Funk

#Jesus Quotes #People Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ...”
“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.57, Basic Books
“When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.”
“Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.”
“You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.”
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”
“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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