David Kudler quotes

David Kudler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.”
-- David Kudler

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“By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.”
“Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.”
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.44, Courier Corporation
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.”
“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”

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