"He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
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"It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor."
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"Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning."
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"Preservation of life is the only true joy."
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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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"Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life."
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"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice"
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"Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome."
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"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
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"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."
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"The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips."
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"Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest."
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"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength."
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"Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing."
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"I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor."
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"You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too."
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe."
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"We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also."
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"To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself."
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