Wisdom from World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven on Earth PDF
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Wisdom from World Religions W ISD OM World Religions from ✦ pathways toward Heaven on Earth Sir John Templeton T F P Templeton Foundation Press Five Radnor Corporate Center, Suite Matsonford Road Radnor, Pennsylvania © by Templeton Foundation Press All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission ofTempleton Foundation Press. Designed and typeset by Gopa & Ted Printed by Sheridan Books Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available e: --- Printed in the United States ofAmerica 02 03 04 05 06 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Introduction xix Week One . When you rule your mind, you rule your world. —Bill Provost . Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs : . Why were you created? —John Marks Templeton . Infinite in all directions. —Freeman Dyson . As you give, so shall you receive. —Matthew :and Luke : Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Two . Your life becomes what you think. —Marcus Aurelius . Love given is love received. —John Marks Templeton . To be forgiven, you must first forgive. —John MarksTempleton . An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. —John Marks Templeton . You fear what you do not understand. —Anonymous Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Three . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson . Listen to learn. —Alcoholics Anonymous . Don’t ever think you are wise enough. —Proverbs : v . Humility can lead to prayer as well as progress and brings you in tune with the infinite. —John Marks Templeton . Failing to plan is planning to fail. —Benjamin Franklin Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Four . Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. —John Marks Templeton . Progress depends on diligence and perseverance. —John Marks Templeton . Love thy neighbor as thyself. —Matthew : . To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. —Confucius . Enthusiasm facilitates achievement. —John Marks Templeton Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Five . By giving you grow. —John Marks Templeton . Does the word “religion” imply authority, whereas the word “spirituality” may imply progress? —John Marks Templeton . The family that prays together stays together. —Common saying . If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. —William Edward Hickson . See everyone in your own self and yourself in everyone. —adapted from Isha Upanishad Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Six . It is better to love than be loved. —St. Francis ofAssisi . Thanksgiving leads to having more to give thanks for. —John Marks Templeton . You cannot be lonely if you help the lonely. —John Marks Templeton vi . You are sought after if you reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. —John Marks Templeton . A smile breeds a smile. —Ted Engstrom Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Seven . Great heroes are humble. —John Marks Templeton . Love given grows, love hoarded dwindles. —John MarksTempleton . Find good in everything. —John Marks Templeton . What the mind can conceive, it may achieve. —Anonymous . Be steadfast in prayer. —Qur’an Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Eight . With God all things are possible. —Matthew : . I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making mehate him. —Booker T. Washington . Do your allotted task! Work excels idleness! —Bhagavad Gita . Enthusiasm is contagious. —John Marks Templeton . Small attempts repeated will complete any undertaking. —Og Mandino Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Nine . Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. —Ted Engstrom . The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates . An honest man’s word is as good as his bond. —American proverb . Tithing often brings prosperity and honor. —John Marks Templeton . Wisdom is more blessed than riches. —John Marks Templeton vii Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Ten . If God is infinite, then nothing can be separate. —John Marks Templeton . Where there is a will, there is a way. —Aesop . Count your blessings and you will have an attitude of gratitude. —John Marks Templeton . We learn more by welcoming criticism than by rendering judgment. —J. Jelinek . What talents can you build? —John Marks Templeton Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Eleven . You will find what you look for: good or evil, problems or solutions. —John Marks Templeton . Is creativity accelerating? —John Marks Templeton . The only way to have a friend is to be a friend. —Ralph Waldo Emerson . Your thinking greatly affects your life. —John Marks Templeton . Learning is a lifelong activity. —John Marks Templeton Spotlights Living the Various Spiritual Laws Week Twelve . Noble purpose creates fruitful lives. —John Marks Templeton . Birds of a feather flock together. —Robert Burton . Idle brains are the devil’s workshop. —H. G. Bohn . You can make opposition work for you. —Anonymous . We are not punished for our anger; we are punished by our anger. —Bhagavad Gita viii
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