Religious Thought

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Better prayer without synagogue than synagogue without prayer.

- Abraham Heschel

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Without love in the heart, Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert. What good is a body perfect in outer ways, If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love? With love enshrined in the heart, one lives. Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin.

- Tirukkural 8:78-80

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I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Within tears, find a hidden laughter; seek treasure amid ruins, sincere one.

- Rumi

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

- Matthew 6:34 (Revised Standard Version)

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

- Baruch Spinoza

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When help is rendered by weighing the receiver's need and not the donor's reward, its goodness grows greater than the sea.

- Tirukkural 11:103

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All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

- Dhammapada 129-130

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The best charity is followed by contentment, so begin with those related to you.

- Hadith The Prophet Muhammed (SAW), as reported by Abu Hurairah

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[M]y faith is part of the morality of who I am.

- Deborah Norville

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