SACRED SPACE : RELIGIOUS QUOTINGS

THANK GOD FOR GOOD GRACE

These things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us Thy grace to labour for.
: Sir Thomas More

Grace is available for each of us every day-our spiritual daily bread-but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not to worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
: Sarah Breathnach

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
:William Hazlitt

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
:Holy Bible

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
:Karl Barth

It is what we do, not what we say, that makes us worthy of His grace.
:George Gilder

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
:May Sarton

ETHICAL ACTION

WITHOUT ATTACHMENT DO THOU ALWAYS PERFORM ACTION WHICH SHOULD BE DONE. FOR, BY PERFORMING ACTION WITHOUT ATTACHMENT MAN REACHES THE SUPREME. AS THE IGNORANT MEN ACT FROM ATTACHMENT TO ACTION. O ARJUNA, SO SHOULD THE WISE ACT WITHOUT ATTACHMENT, WISHING THE WELFARE OF THE WORLD.
:BHAGAVAD GITA 3

INTEGRITY IS A MATTER OF CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF EVERY ACTION AND OF NEVER BEING DRAWN MINDLESSLY INTO ANYTHING.
:DADI JANAKI

MEASURES MUST ALWAYS, IN A PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY, BE HELD SUPERIR TO MEN, WHO, AFTER ALL, ARE IMPERFECT INSTRUMENTS, WORKING FOR THEIR FULFILLMENT. NEVER HAS MAN REACHED HIS DESTINATION BY PERSISTENCE IN DEVIATION FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH.
:MAHATMA GANDHI

WE CANNOT WITHDRAW OUR CARDS FROM THE GAME. WERE WE SILENT AND AS MUTE AS STONES, OUR PASSIVITY WOULD BE AN ACT.
:JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

WHAT RENDERS US SO BITTER AGAINST THOSE WHO TRICK US IS THAT THEY BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE MORE CLEVER THAN WE ARE.
:LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

MORALITY PRIMER

GOOD CONDUCT IS THE HIGHEST DHARMA. IT IS THE ROOT OF ALL TAPAS OR AUSTERITIES.
:SWAMI SIVANAND

MORALITY IS BOTH AN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON. It tells you how to be happy.
:FROM ISLAM ONLINE

MORALITY IS THAT WHICH SUSTAINS LIFE. SIN IS THAT WHICH DESTROYES LIFE. MORALITY IS THE STANDARD OF HUMAN RELATIONS. CONCEPTUALISE MORALITY AS CONSTRUCTIVITY; SIN AS DESTRUCTIVITY. MORALITY IS SOLVING PROBLEMS; SIN IS CREATING PROBLEMS.
:GARY NOVAK

WHATEVER BRINGS US CLOSER TO ATTAINING INNATE DIVINITY IS ETHICAL AND MORAL; WHATEVER PREVENTS US FROM ATTAINING IT; IS NOT.
:VEDANTA SOCIETY OF SOUTH CALIFORNIA

KNOW ONLY THAT WHAT IS MORAL IS WHAT YOU FEEL GOOD AFTER AND WHAT IS IMMORAL IS WHAT YOU FEEL BAD AFTER.
:ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike
:Oscar wilde

RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITY

Get out of this prison of self-centeredness and find a genuine interest in other people. Everyone has to learn the lesson some day that the best way to be happy is to strive to make others happy. Just as there can be no right without responsibility, there can be no happiness without selflessness.
:Ranganathananda

“It’s a question of discipline”, the little prince told me later on. “When you have finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet”.
:Antoine de Saint-Exupiry

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