Holiness Quotes

“Trei lucruri trebuie păzite de dragul sfințeniei: neprihănirea trupului, puritatea sufletului şi adevărul învățăturii.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Despre minciună

“All meditate on symbols, I meditate on people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The spirit of love and oneness is beyond time and form.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“The place to start controlling the cravings of our physical appetites is to reduce our exposure to temptation.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“It is vain to guard our minds and emotions against that
which comes from without if we do not at the same time deal
with habits of sin which are within. The battle for holiness must
be fought on two fronts—without and within. Only then will
we see progress toward holiness.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“One of the “talents” God has given to every Christian is the possibility of walking in holiness, being
free from the dominion of sin”
― Jerry Bridges , The Pursuit of Holiness

“In my eyes there is no priest, no prostitute, only people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“No Priest No Prostitute (The Sonnet)

In my eyes there is no priest,
No prostitute, only people.
In my eyes there is no pope,
No pedestrian, only people.
In my eyes there is no royalty,
No subject, only people.
In my eyes there is no leader,
No follower, only people.
There is no intellectual,
No layman, only people.
In my eyes there is no superior,
No inferior, only people.
Hierarchy is malarkey maintained by fools.
Oneness maketh civilization across silly schools.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“God is awesome in the beauty of his holiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Truth doesn't sell, lies do, complexity does. But here's the thing. Lies sell in the guise of higher truth. That's why "love thy neighbor" is not a simple way of life, but an entire messed up institutionalized indoctrinating religion. Because if you forget all those frivolous dogmas, doctrines and stories, and simply embrace love thy neighbor as the supreme way of life, religious leaders won't have anything to sell you, and when they have nothing to sell you, they won't have any control over you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery…. And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man…. And this doth be Human Love….”
― William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land

“Higher Dimension (The Sonnet)

The only higher dimension,
Is the selfless dimension.
There is no magic, no mysticism,
There is only self-annihilation.
Service makes a being divine,
Not rituals and rigidity.
A kind atheist is more divine,
Than a priest who's bigoted and greedy.
You don't rise high by worshiping,
Images, symbols and ideologies.
You rise when you fall in service,
At the feet of the helpless and needy.
Those who wanna help themselves help the world.
Those who just help themselves are plain retard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Combine without Condescension (The Sonnet)

When all combine without condescension,
We shall witness God's face.
Then we shall realize beyond all doubt,
God has never been a person but a state.
A state of mind where division disappears,
That is what godliness means.
A state of sight where separation withers,
That is what holiness means.
This state is beyond beliefs and doctrines,
It is the sacred valley of life beyond life.
There is no life so long as we are divided,
Life united is life brought to life.
There is no God, only heart nonsectarian.
In that heart, You, I, the Father, the Son, all are one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“A state of mind where division disappears, that is what godliness means. A state of sight where separation withers, that is what holiness means.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“The thought had then occurred to her that, as it was no longer easy to be prayerful in a world which had divorced pleasure from God, there was only one solution left and that was to be gay in a convent.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“Every little betrayal, every little rhyming of conviction and convenience, every little selfishness, every little preference of immediate comfort to ultimate good hastens the coming of the next war.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“Perhaps some of them chose Schwester Kasimira's way, glorying in their discomfort because they knew that Jesus Christ hadn't stayed at the Ritz either. Perhaps there were unknown saints, Saint Ignatius Loyolas queuing at bus stops and Saint Augustines of Hippo giving up their seats on the tram. The thought made him briefly happy, seeming consecrate some of the aridity of his soldiering.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“A human doesn't need religion to be good, but every religion needs a human, to be good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“It seemed to me that the most saintly and amazingly rivetingly holy people I ever met were all liable to laughter and had egos so tiny you couldn't find them with the most powerful microscopes.”
― Brian Doyle

“Dropout Scientist (The Sonnet)

I am a scientist who doesn't have a degree,
I am a poet who has no control over words.
I am a philosopher who has no intellect whatsoever,
I am a monk with no idea, what it means to be religious.
If I am being honest, I have no clue what I am,
And I know quite well that you do not know either.
But believe you me my friend, one day in sheer awe,
Your descendants will come up with the rightful answer.
In my 30 years of life, I've traveled quite a distance,
Which will take the world at least a millennium to cover.
That's why archaic designations fall short to define life,
No designation is qualified to define a being beyond border.
My faith is humanity, my reason is humanity, my love is humanity.
I am but a glimpse of the future, without coldness and rigidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“A human doesn't need religion to be good, but every religion needs a human, to be good”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Divinity is just a fancy name for everyday kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Time to Bury All Divide (The Sonnet)

It's time we bury the nationality nonsense,
Person is known by their behavior not nation.
It's time we bury the holy book nonsense,
Person becomes holy by compassion not religion.
It's time we bury the representation nonsense,
Social reform starts with civic duty not delegation.
It's time we bury the intellectualism nonsense,
Society is civilized by heart not cocky argumentation.
It's time we abolish the royalty nonsense,
Humans are known by behavior, animals by bloodline.
It's time we dissolve all moronity of hierarchy,
True advancement lies in the abolition of divide.
Even the mighty sun doesn't differentiate
between first world and third world humanity.
It is only the lowly beings who can't help
but practice some good old exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“I only know of one divinity - kindness. Save kindness all else is fiction - from the fundamental facts of physics to the direst doctrines of scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Divinity & Division (The Sonnet)

The rosary and the crucifix are,
No more magical than a rabbit's foot.
Their meaning comes from the mind,
In search of security and couth.
Without the mind to add meaning,
To these objects and symbols,
They are merely trinkets,
Without past, without purpose.
Keep your trinkets if you must,
But don't impose them on another.
Trinkets may help you in tough times,
But don't use them as divine divider.
Division is the desecration of divinity.
Any act of divide is sheer blasphemy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Sonnet of Unlearning

Peace is not a matter of learning harmony,
It's about unlearning division.
Science is not about learning logic,
It's about unlearning superstition.
Health is not about learning medicine,
It's about unlearning over-indulgence.
Justice is not about learning accountability,
It's about unlearning indifference.
Order is not about learning law,
It's about unlearning recklessness.
Holiness is not about learning scripture,
It's about unlearning hatefulness.
More than learning, we got plenty to unlearn.
All of it starts with unsubmission to tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Radioactive Mind (The Sonnet)

In front of the radioactivity of mind,
Radioactivity of matter turns dim.
In front of the joules of a just heart,
A billion ohms of hate become nil.
Hate is the question,
Heart is the answer.
Hate is the sickness,
Heart is the cure.
Prejudice is the ailment,
Piety is the cure.
What is piety you ask!
Nothing but kindness more pure.
Kindness is divinity, kindness is sanity.
Wasting it to codify life is sheer stupidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Doing God's work and doing God's propaganda are two different things. And the world has enough propaganda as it is - what the world needs is God's work - what this world needs is service - service not to the idea of God, but to the helpless and destitute - service to those who have nowhere to turn to. This, my friend, is called practical divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Divinity and worship are two different things. Worship is an act of self-preservation, divinity is an act of self-annihilation - divinity is annihilation of the self for the uplift of others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love