Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
