(272 quotes found)
“Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death”
Friedrich Max Muller
“What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.”
“A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.”
“He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.”
“I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting: the wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what He gave, for the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.”
Max Muller
“He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.”
“Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.”
“In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.”
“Into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?”
“Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand!”
