We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
