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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland - General information about the church, its administration and activities.
International Evangelical Church in Finland - A multi-cultural, interdenominational congregation. Mainly focused on the Helsinki area.
The Islamic Society of Finland - Prayer timetable for Helsinki.
Jewish Community of Helsinki - Cultural and religious life of the community, as well as a short history of Finnish Jewry.
Cult Information in Finland - Brief introduction to a support group for victims of religious cults.
University of Turku - Comparative Religion - History of religious studies in Finland, presentations of research areas and information for students.
Global Discourse - Presentation of a Bahá'í students' organization at the University of Joensuu.
Jewry in Finland - Brief history of the local Jewish community.
Timanttipolku - Diamond Way Buddhist meditation groups in Helsinki and Turku.
University of Helsinki - Faculty of Theology - Presentations of the five departments. Studies, research, guest lectures and internal cooperation.
Christian Artists Finland - Non-profit organization supporting Christian artists.
Religion and Churches in Finland - Describes the role of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church as the established state church and the role of other churches and religious communities in the Finnish constitution, law and social fabric.
St Birgitta of Sweden's Influence in Finland - An essay on how Birgitta had effects on Finnish culture during her lifetime and immediately after, when her cult was revived some decades later, and after the Lutheran Reformation.
The United Methodist Church in Turku - The languages used in the church are Swedish, English, Finnish, Russian and Vietnamese. Events and links.
Valamo Monastery - The Finnish Orthodox Church's only monastery. Photographs, daily life, visitor information.
Turku English Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses - Provides event information and photo galleries.
Finland Helsinki Mission Alumni - Dedicated to missionaries who served in the finnish mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes news and discussion forum.
Catholic Church in Finland - Includes contact details of churches, centres and priests.
The Liberal Catholic Church Province of Finland - Information about the province, plus contacts.
Unitarian Universalist Society of Finland - Includes a summary of the book "Free Faith - Thoughts of Unitarian Universalists and Quakers", as well as links and contact information.
Church Resources Agency - Formed by two organisations, The Home Mission Society of the Church of Finland and The Church of Finland Federation of Parochial Work Associations. Provides a brief summary in English of the agency's work, with contact details.
Malkus - Christian group for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transvestites. Includes event calendar and contact information.
Peace through Sahaja Yoga - Information about one person's positive experience of meditation, with relevant links.
Kotisatama - Christian portal in Finnish and English. Includes prayers and games.
Church Resources Agency - Provides a brief guide to the background of the organisation.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Religion "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Religion No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Religion I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Religion Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Religion For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Religion The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Religion blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Religion "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Religion At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Religion "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Religion There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Religion When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Religion For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Religion "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Religion Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Religion I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Religion "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Religion I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Religion Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Religion Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Religion "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Religion
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