Quotes About Teachings

Granted, Catholic sexual teachings are often in the news, but if you think about it, the media rarely reports on what the Church teaches sex is for. Instead, it reports on what the Church teaches sex is not for.

The elder wife said that the stranger was welcome to the children, but she insisted that they hear nothing of the outside world, and that they be kept to the teachings of the Mormon geography—which made all the world outside Utah an untrodden wilderness. August Naab did not hold to the letter of the Mormon law; he argued that if the children could not be raised as Mormons with a full knowledge of the world, they would only be lost in the end to the Church.

Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Saying of the Prophet Monkishness No monkery in Islam.

No es una casualidad que los Sufis piensen que pueden conectarse de forma más constructiva con personas que están bien integradas en el mundo, además de tener objetivos superiores, y que aquellas que adoptan una actitud razonable hacia la vida y la sociedad tal como la conocemos pueden por lo general absorber muy bien las enseñanzas Sufis

Existe la afirmación Sufi de que la verdad no se descubre o mantiene por la mera repetición de enseñanzas. Su comprensión sólo puede mantenerse mediante la continua experiencia de ella. Y es en la experiencia de la verdad donde los Sufis siempre han depositado su confianza. Por tanto el sufismo no es "Haz como digo y no como hago", o incluso "Haz como hago", sino "Experiméntalo y conocerás".

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

Beggars and Workers IT IS RELATED of Ibn el-Arabi that people said to him: 'Your circle is composed mainly of beggars, husbandmen and artisans. Can you not find people of intellect who will follow you, so that perhaps more authoritative notice might be taken of your teachings?' He said: 'The Day of Calamity will be infinitely

La división entre Comprensión Mayor y Menor, ¿es común para todos los Sufis?Nada puesto en palabras es común a todos los Sufis.

Muchas enseñanzas religiosas en el mundo son en realidad una forma confusa o deteriorada, muy diferente a sus raíces.

The real test of whether Scripture or tradition is our fundamental authority lies in our willingness to test those preunderstandings by further study of the Scripture, examining its teachings again in a literary-historical manner.

Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings.

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself seems increasingly obscure.

Let's downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.

The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work

I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

The Bible is sufficient to both assert and defend its own teachings. It is a mighty sword, and we must develop the skill to wield it.

we must expose ourselves to the Bible, immerse ourselves in its words and its teachings, and then pray for the Spirit to render it effective in our lives.