NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 145

·        "True religion is a wholehearted devotion to some reality which the religionist deems to be of supreme value to himself and for all mankind."

• ·        "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift
  ·        “It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
  ·        "Religionists are of no more value in the tasks of social reconstruction than nonreligionists except in so far as their religion has conferred upon them enhanced cosmic foresight and endowed them with that superior social wisdom which is born of the sincere desire to love God supremely and to love every man as a brother in the heavenly kingdom."
  ·        “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”—Jalal ad-Din Rumi
  ·        "The call to the adventure of building a new and transformed human society by means of the spiritual rebirth of Jesus' brotherhood of the kingdom should thrill all who believe in him as men have not been stirred since the days when they walked about on earth as his companions in the flesh."
  ·        "Revelation does synthesize the apparently divergent sciences of nature and the theology of religion into a consistent and logical universe philosophy, a co-ordinated and unbroken explanation of both science and religion."
  ·        “Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.”—Anonymous
  ·        “Listen to your heart. It knows all things.”—Paulo Coelho
  ·        "He never ceased to warn his disciples against the evil practice of retaliation; he made no allowance for revenge, the idea of getting even. He deplored the holding of grudges."
  ·        Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
  ·        I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison