Comments on: Quote of the Day: Gandhi on Religion http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/11/29/gandhi-religion-quote Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:08:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Britney http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/11/29/gandhi-religion-quote#comment-102249 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:24:49 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/11/29/gandhi-religion-quote#comment-102249 "Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!" Dostoevsky God may have no religion but, perhaps, he has given us the model for perfection. “Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!”

Dostoevsky

God may have no religion but, perhaps, he has given us the model for perfection.

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