Quotes That Inspired the World
"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Exodus 22, King James Version
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6
"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?"
- Matthew 24:14,
"If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophesy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tounges, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present, we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
- 1 Corinthians Ch. 13 New American Standard Bible
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- 5:1-12 (NIV) Often referred to as "The Beautitudes" this is the start of "The Sermon on the Mount"
Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven
18:3-20 (KJV)
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
- o 22:37-40 (KJV)
"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."
(Luke 17:3-4) (NIV)
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world."
- The Buddha Dhammapada, as translated by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications.
" No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way."
- The Buddha Dhammapada Ch. 165
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."
- The Buddha
"From Delight we came into existence.
In Delight we grow.
At the end of our journey’s close,
Into Delight we retire."
- Upanishads
"I have known this Great Being,
effulgent as the sun
beyond the boundaries of tenebrous gloom. "
- The Upanishads
"Just as a person casts off worn-out garments
and puts on others that are new,
even so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies
and take on others that are new.Weapons do not cleave this self;
fire does not burn him;
waters do not make him wet; "
- Bhagavad Gita
"I am always with all beings;
I abandon no one. And
However great your inner darkness,
You are never separate from me.
- Bhagavad Gita
I am justice: clear, impartial,
Favouring no one, hating no one.
But in those who have cured themselves
of selfishness, I shine with brilliance."Even murderers and rapists,
Tyrants, the most cruel fanatics,
Ultimately know redemption
Through my love, if they surrender
- Bhagavad Gita
All can be done
if the God-touch is there
God shall grow up
While the wise men
Talk and sleep.We are sons of God
And must be even as he.
Oh, surely one day
He shall come to our cry.None can reach heaven
Who has not
Passed through hell.The soul in man
Is greater
Than his fate.Man can accept his fate,
He can refuse.Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.
For joy
And not for sorrow
Earth was made.
- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri
Let us not worry
About the future.
Let us only do the right thing
Today,
At this moment,
Here and now.
Let the future take care of itself.
- Sri Chinmoy
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
- Sri Chinmoy
I do not give up,
I never give up,
For there is nothing
In this entire world
That is irrevocably unchangeable.
- Sri Chinmoy
"There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way."
- Sri Chinmoy
"The power of love is infinitely more powerful than the power of hatred, because when you love someone, at that time his divine qualities have to come forward."
- Sri Chinmoy
" People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow..."