
“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
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Spiritual life, Faith
“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
Source: Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st century, 1999, p. 51
Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, i.17 as quoted by Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln http://books.google.com/books?id=-pIuAAAAYAAJ, p. 52 (footnote 2)
"Freedom from Religion", The Nation (19 February 2001) http://www.thenation.com/article/freedom-religion/
Context: A genuinely democratic society requires a secular ethos: one that does not equate morality with religion, stigmatize atheists, defer to religious interests and aims over others or make religious belief an informal qualification for public office. Of course, secularism in the latter sense is not mandated by the First Amendment. It's a matter of sensibility, not law.
“Ethical individualism… is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”
Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12
“Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.”
1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
“Merit is no qualification for freedom.”
"Letter to the Editor" The Times (22 July 1920) http://www.telstudies.org/writings/letters/1919-20/200722_the_times.shtml
Context: Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
“Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people,”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 145
Context: Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.