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.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Prayer is a turning to God.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Devotion is a social force.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
God is not a diversion.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
