It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.