Schuon Quotes

#1. The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

Frithjof Schuon

#2. It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

Frithjof Schuon

#3. Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.

Frithjof Schuon

#4. O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy
And whose remembrance heals our soul's disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.

Frithjof Schuon

#5. Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

Frithjof Schuon

#6. The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

George Whitefield

#7. The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

William Ellery Channing

#8. Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

Frithjof Schuon

#10. A transaction between joy and task-fulfilment is much more productive than between money and work

Priyavrat Thareja

#11. As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

George Whitefield

#12. Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [ ... to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

Frithjof Schuon

#13. In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but "confiscated" the Message; Christianity universalized but "altered" it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing and universalizing it.

Frithjof Schuon

#14. I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

Lawrence Hill

#15. There is no pure free-market economy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#16. The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth.

Frithjof Schuon

#17. A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. The exoteric Islam doesn't interest me more than any other religion. But the mysticism interests me. It's like Hinduism.
[Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennialist Philosophy DVD]

Frithjof Schuon

#19. Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Horace

#20. Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

Thomas Hardy

#21. The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his?

Stephanie Perkins

#22. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Terry Pratchett

#23. The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

Frithjof Schuon

#24. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Essentially all religions include decisive truths and mediators and miracles, but the disposition of these elements, the play of their proportions, can vary according to the conditions of the revelation and of the human receptacles of the revelation.

Frithjof Schuon

#26. That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

Frithjof Schuon

#27. We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Frithjof Schuon

#28. My future was a blank slate and only I could write on it.

Carter Quinn