… children of God never see in Him a punisher or a rewarder.
It is only people who have never tasted of love that fear and quake.
Cast off
all fear -- though these horrible ideas of God as a punisher or rewarder may
have their use in savage minds.
Some men, even the most intellectual, are
spiritual savages, and these ideas may help them. But to men who are spiritual,
men who are approaching religion, in whom spiritual insight is awakened, such
ideas are simply childish, simply foolish. Such men reject all ideas of fear.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in New York
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