Lily Montagu quotes

“Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.”
-- Lily Montagu

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“Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.”
-- Lily Montagu

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“There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.”
-- Lily Montagu

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“What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.”

“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”

“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”

“There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.”

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?”