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A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Annie Besant

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
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Faith Religion
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
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God Greatness Man Woman Work
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity
God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.
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Breathe Build End Foundation God Himself Space
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God’s manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
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Beautiful Death God Happiness Himself Man Nature Shine Touch Work
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.
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Difference Emotion Judgement Memories Thinking
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
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Ability Body Born Children God Greatness Growth Light Man Nature Soul
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
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Best Practice Religion Teaching Worst Yourself
Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.
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Clothes Earth Herself Intelligence Space Strange
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
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Evolution Human Misery Ourselves
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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Evil Greatness Hate Leadership Woman
In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.
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Change Development Forever Life Light Man Seek Time
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.
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Charm Competition Excitement Result Survive Wonder
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.
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Best Citizenship Color Country Death Equality Freedom Help Honor Life Love Question Respect Sacrifice Service
There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.
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Born Nation People Right Servant Skin

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

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