Great Throughts Treasury

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Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

I will get all My people near Me, for they are Mine, and I am theirs. Then, I will start teaching and training them, until they become entirely ego-free. For the last 25 years, it has all been sweetness, kindness, soft persuasion; hereafter, it will be different. I will drag them, place them on the table and operate. That is to say, I have no anger or hate. I have only Love.

Lord | Prayer | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Honor and dishonor are the same to me; I have placed my forehead upon the Guru's Feet. Wealth does not excite me, and misfortune does not disturb me; I have embraced love for my Lord and Master.

Family | Lord | Property | Sacred | Trust | Wealth | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Some live by the shore, some live on the water; some study the Vedas.

Life | Life | Practice | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The Creator Himself has created the universe; He Himself shall destroy it.

Challenge | Cruelty | Future | Money | Society | Sympathy | Worship | Cruelty | Society | Child |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A person should refrain from all those things that take him towards fallacy, misery, ignorance and degradation.

God | Worship | God |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The Lord is without attributes; the attributes of virtue are under His control.

Lord | Selfishness | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The Lord has to take the Form that is suitable for the task He has to fulfill. To catch a gang of decadents, the Police Officer has to move among them as a decadent. That is why the Human Form has been taken. But who, challenged with impurity by their own wives, dare challenge the Avatar and ask for proof. Of course, if you desire to understand, you are welcome; be near, watch, learn and believe.

Lord | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The same gold is fashioned into various articles; just so, the Lord has made the many patterns of the creation.

Praise | Worship |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

When a child's growth is stunted, it causes grief; when he starts to grow normally, it causes joy, when the growth is abnormal, it causes grief again.

Energy | Faith | Life | Life | Method | Worship |

Vance Havner

Anybody can be faithful, but many are not.

Worship |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

But the Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

God | Love | Witness | Worship | God |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

God | Love | Worship | God |

Hugh Blair

It is not easy to describe in words the precise impression which great and sublime objects make upon us when we behold them; but every one has a conception of it. It produces a sort of internal elevation and expansion; it raises the mind much above its ordinary state, and fills it with a degree of wonder and astonishment which it cannot well express. The emotion is certainly delightful, but it is altogether of the serious kind; a degree of awfulness and solemnity, even approaching to severity, commonly attends it when at its height, very distinguishable from the more gay and brisk emotion raised by beautiful objects.

Better | Improvement | Man | Pious | Sense | Worship |

William Shakespeare

All goodness is poison to thy stomach.

Better | Dirty | Gold | Worship |

William Shakespeare

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

Heaven | Little | Love | Will | World | Worship |

William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i, Scene 1

Heaven | Little | Love | Will | World | Worship |

William James

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

Abstract | Divinity | God | Object | Scandal | Worship | God |

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Comfort | Means | Will | Worship |

William Law

He that is endeavoring to subdue, and root out of his mind, all those passions of pride, envy and ambition, which religion opposes, is doing more to make himself happy, even in this life than he that is contriving means to indulge them.

Angels | Reverence | Worship |