Fazlur Rahman Quotes

#1. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

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#2. The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

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#3. The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

Manly Hall

#4. This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,
between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

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#5. All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else - in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature - in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.

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#6. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

David Levithan

#7. Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity is the unity of knowledge, how can it be all that subjective? It is a faith grounded in knowledge.

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#9. Empirical knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

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#10. believe in yourself, what you think, what you feel.
believe in the truth, in the good, in the ideal.
belive that your dreams can someday become real.
forever and always believe.

Amanda Bradley

#11. Don't just dream it. Be it!

Richard O'Brien

#12. A true submissive obeys in mind and body, whether or not Master is present.

Red Phoenix

#13. Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.

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#14. The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

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