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God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Bede Griffiths

There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not ‘known’ at this point and thus transmuted.
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Beginning Point Transmuted
In his (Christ’s) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality.
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Agony Pain Spiritual
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Existence Made Own
…the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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People Powerful Spiritual
It was God’s purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth’.
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God Heaven Thing Unite
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time… It is partly a physical transformation.
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Body Change Heart
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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Individual Society Stillness
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments – father, mother, wife, children – everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Children Giving Mother
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Abandonment One Self Thing
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
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Atheist Challenge Rejection
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
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Church Reality Spiritual
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
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Humanity Restoration Spiritual
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
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Christian Together Understanding
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
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Mystery Tradition World
To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life.
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Eternal Life Resurrection Suffering World
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
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Adequate Reality Vision

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

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