NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 290

• ·       "While your religion is a matter of personal experience, it is most important that you should be exposed to the knowledge of a vast number of other religious experiences (the diverse interpretations of other and diverse mortals) to the end that you may prevent your religious life from becoming egocentric----- circumscribed, selfish, and unsocial."
  ·       "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crises, maintain their neutrality." Dante Alighieri
  ·       "Never on all the worlds of this universe, in the life of any one mortal, did God ever become such a living reality as in the human experience of Jesus of Nazareth."
  ·       There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
  There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
  ·       "The universes of time and space are gradual in development; the progression of life----- terrestrial or celestial----- is neither arbitrary nor magical. Cosmic evolution may not always be understandable (predictable), but it is strictly nonaccidental.
  ·       "The religion of living experience finds no difficulty in keeping ahead of all ... social developments and economic upheavals, amid which it ever functions as a moral stabilizer, social guide, and spiritual pilot."
  ·       "I begin each day with the intention to be of service. Only by allowing our grief, outrage, longing, pain and tears can we discover the wise heart pain and that can contain them all." -An African elder