The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
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.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
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.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
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.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.