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Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact as its condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, with birth, ageing and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief and despair it is burning. ↗

— The Buddha's Fire Sermon

#enlightenment #fire #fire-sermon #philosophy #religion

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#atheism #barack-obama #justice #martin-luther-king-jr #morality

Despite the damaging effects of mounting criticism, we saw some lovely examples of the triumph of the human spirit. Al’s greatest trouble was accustoming his people to the concept that each had been given at least one gift of the Holy Spirit to be used for ministry in the community. It seemed to be foreign to them. For those who actually experimented with expressing what was locked inside there was delight and fulfillment. ↗

— David R. Mains

#christian-ministry #christian-sermons #experience

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chapel #church #god #preacher #preaching

I write all my sermons. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#i write #sermons #write

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#capital #capital punishment #come #contend #i

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#children #church #employ #every #given

Judas heard all Christ's sermons. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

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Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! ↗

— Johnny Vegas

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The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. ↗

— William Feather

#man #minister #preach #preached #sermon