Spiritual Quotes

Originally posted by Maustrauser
"Why if the LORD is a shepherd, does he allow the wolves in with the sheep?"

- Janian Wilmott

Because God created mankind with a free will, unfortunately for the sheep, the "wolves" have free wills. God does not allow, but rather wolves make choices just as sheep do.

Una

If the Rosary was important wouldn't it be in the bible?

Originally posted by Una
Because God created mankind with a free will, unfortunately for the sheep, the "wolves" have free wills. God does not allow, but rather wolves make choices just as sheep do.

Una

Being an Australian, I have seen far too many sheep in my lifetime and I can tell you that sheep do not make choices! They are followers...just as the psalm "The Lord is my Shepherd" wants us to be - followers.

Does God not have an obligation to protect his followers?

Truly these are not safe refuges,
not the refuge supreme.
Not the refuge whereby one is
freed from all sorrow.

But to take refuge in the
Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha
and to see with real understanding
the Four Noble Truths.

Suffering, the cause of suffering,
the transcending of suffering and
the Noble Eightfold Path that leads
to the transcending of suffering.

This indeed is a safe refuge,
it is the refuge supreme.
It is the refuge whereby one is
freed from all suffering.

Buddha

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The Dalai Lama

"Religion has certainty without proof. Science has proof without certainty."--Richard Dawkins

"Evil is not something that has an existence all on its own; rather, it is the corruption of that which already exists - evil is the absence or privation of something good."

-???-

"Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil."

Proverbs, chapter 3:7

"The stage is too big for the play." - Nobel laureate Richard Feynman on the idea that a deity made the universe as an environment in which to place his real purpose for creation--humans.

"So you should view all of the fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."

The Diamond-cutter Sutra

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Bokonon

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Shakyamuni Buddha

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

I do not believe in the creed professed
by the Jewish church, by the Roman church,
by the Greek church, by the Turkish church,
by the Protestant church, nor by any church
that I know of. My own mind is my own church.


Thomas Paine

"Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul."

Walt Whitman