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.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
