The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual by Geoffrey Parrinder

By Geoffrey Parrinder

How did the universe come to exist? what's the nature of its author? Is there a function to human life? what's it to dwell a very good life?The Routledge Dictionary of non secular and religious Quotations bargains not only one, yet many, solutions to those questions. Geoffrey Parrinder has drawn on the entire nice books of global religions - the Bible, the Qur'an, Zoroastrian Gathas, Hindu Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Jewish Mishnah, Sikh Adi Granth and chinese language Tao Te Ching - during this selection of over 3000 quotations. observe the phrases of prophets, students and mystics on issues non secular and ethical, in addition to Plato on sexuality, Freud on faith and Gandhi on violence.Originally released in 1990, The Routledge Dictionary of spiritual Quotations is now reissued with a brand new preface by means of Geoffrey Parrinder.

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Patrick White, Voss (1957) 16 AGNOSTICISM AND HUMANISM See also 110. DOUBT 1 As I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD [agn st the ] Acts, 17, 23 2 I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ‘agnostic’. Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays (1893) 3 Agnostic was the name demanded by Professor Huxley for those who disclaimed atheism, and believed with him in an ‘unknown and unknowable’ God; or in other words that the ultimate origin of all things must be some cause unknown and unknowable.

SHAMANS 1 The king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers. Daniel, 2, 2 2 To him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts, 8, 11 3 A person who refrains from practising divination is assigned a place in Heaven which even the ministering angels are unable to penetrate. Mishnah, Nedarim, 32 4 When they see a sign, they seek to make fun, And say, This is nothing but magic manifest. Koran, 37, 14–1 5 If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

So then for the gods, by the daily experience that I have of their power and providence towards myself and others, I know certainly that they exist and therefore I worship them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12, 21 (2nd century) 12 Whom the gods love dies young. Menander, Dis Exapaton, 4 (4th century BCE) 13 To despise this sphere and the gods within it, or anything else that is lovely, is not the way to goodness. Plotinus, Enneads, 2, 9, 16 (3rd century) 14 There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell…divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and evening,— Apollo and the sweet Muses of the Light.

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