Shattering Humanity-Chapter 345: Favorite Opening Spiritual Verses(So Far)
As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.
Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had to trample the rest of your pastures with your hooves? Or to drink the clearest water, that you had to pollute the rest with your hooves?
Thus my flock had to graze on what your hooves had trampled and drink what your hooves had polluted.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will judge between the fat and the lean.
Because you push with flank and shoulder, and butt all the weak sheep with your horns until you drive them off,
I will save my flock so they can no longer be plundered; I will judge between one sheep and another." -Ezekiel 17-22(IV Hope For The Future)
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"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." -Romans12:2
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For persecution is far worse than killing. And they will not stop fighting you until they turn you away from your faith-if they can. And whoever among you renounces their own faith and dies a disbeliever, their deeds will become void in this life and in the Hereafter. It is they who will be the residents of the Fire. They will be there forever." -Al-Baqarah 2:216
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Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious.
Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe.
Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion." -[Tao Te Ching Chapter 67]
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"I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ’a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household’" -Matthew 10:34–36
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"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
The poison of vipers is on their lips.
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.
There is no fear of God before their eyes." -Romans 3:11-18
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"If only there has been a society which believed before seeing the torment and , therefore, benefited from it’s belief, like the people of Jonah. When they believed, We lifted them from the torment of disgrace in this world and allowed them enjoyment for a while.
Had your Lord so willed O Prophet, all people on earth would have certainly believed, every single one of them! Would you then force people to become believers?" -Yunus 10:98-99
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"Thirty spokes unite around one hub to make a wheel.
It is the presence of the empty space that gives the function of a vehicle.
Clay is molded into a vessel. It is the empty space that gives the function of a vessel.
Doors and windows are chisel out to make a room.
It is the empty space in the room that gives its function.
Therefore, something substantial can be beneficial.
While the emptiness of void is what can be utilized." -Tao Te Ching Chapter 11
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"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great."
-Matthew 7: 24-27
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"He who wishes to take control of the world and acts upon it,
I can see that he will not succeed.
For the world is a divine vessel,
It cannot be acted upon as one wish.
He who acts on it fails.
He who holds on to it loses.
Therefore some things move forward while some follow behind.
Some try to warm with exhaled air while some try to blow it cold.
Some are strong while some are weak.
Some are successfully accomplished while some are declined and failed.
Thus, the saint avoids all extremes, extravagance, and pride." -Tao Te Ching Chapter 29
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"Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice since you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed." -1 Peter 4:12-13
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"All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him." -1 Samuel 17:47-50
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"...All you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.
For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.
For this is what the Lord says:
’I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted..." Isaiah 66:10-13
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"And commissioned by Time, a Brahmana of the name Kalki will take his birth.
(He) will glorify Vishnu and possess great energy, great intelligence, and great prowess.
(He) will take his birth in a town of the name of Sambhala to an auspicious Brahmana family.
Vehicles and weapons, and warriors and arms, and coats of mail will be at his disposal as soon as he will think of them.
(He) will be the king of kings, and ever victorious with the strength of virtue.
(He) will restore order and peace in this world crowded with creatures and contradictory in its course.
(That) blazing Brahmana of mighty intellect, having appeared, will destroy all things.
(He) will be the Destroyer of all, and will inaugurate a new Yuga(Time/Universe).
Surrounded by the Brahmanas, that Brahmana will exterminate all the mlecchas(foreigners/nonbelievers) wherever those low and despicable persons may take refuge." -Aranyaka Parva Chapter 189
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"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not provide its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And at that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN with power and great glory [in brilliance and splendor].
...He will send His angels with a loud trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." -Matthew 24:29-31
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"BEFORE entering on the subject of this Chapter, I must make a few preliminary remarks, to show how the struggle for existence bears on Natural Selection.
It has been seen in the last Chapter that amongst organic beings in a state of nature there is some individual variability; indeed I am not aware that this has ever been disputed.
It is immaterial for us whether a multitude of doubtful forms be called species or sub-species or varieties; what rank, for instance, the two or three hundred doubtful forms of British plants are entitled to hold, if the existence of any well-marked varieties be admitted. But the mere existence of individual variability and of some few well-marked varieties, though necessary as the foundation for the work, helps us but little in understanding how species arise in nature.
How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected?
We see these beautiful co-adaptations most plainly in the woodpecker and missletoe; and only a little less plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of the beetle which dives through the water; in the plumed seed which is wafted by the gentlest breeze; in short, we see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world." -
Charles Darwin, "On The Origin Of Species", Page 60-61
