![Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.](/assets/img/quote-photos/love-the-one-supreme-unceasing-source-of-human-felicity-the-one-sole-joy-which.jpg)
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If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
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Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations. E. Helm
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Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy. Charles Spurgeon
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. Denholm Elliott
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Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not. Dean Ornish
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Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion. Jonah Peretti
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate. Eleanor Clift
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If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion Elbert Hubbard
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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
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My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them. Rohit Shetty
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Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.
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Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos Havelock Ellis
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Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership. Robert Nardelli
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Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()
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Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life. Sathya Baba