For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. — Arthur Compton

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ― Coco Chanel

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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ― Douglas Coupland

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ― Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth. — Pema Chodron

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