Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.