religion

"Few people realize the enormous but always invisible and quiet psychological leverage that new ideas have upon human consciousness; and this is especially so with teachings of a spiritual or intellect…"

"I recommend that the pilgrims pray there, that they be persistent in their prayer. Prayer is a very good way of worshiping God. They should not forget to pray. But for every prayer there should also b…"

"To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it."

"The dearest among you to God , is the one whose deeds and behavior are better than others."

"“Mahomed Shah now sat down before Condapilly and Bhim Raj, after six months, being much distressed, sued for pardon; which being granted, at the intercession of some of the nobility, he surrendered th…"

"Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from o…"

"Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion."

"Free will is critical in a loving relationship because there cannot be love without the opportunity to oppose that love. There cannot be an appreciation without the opportunity to express it through c…"

"One’s language is a spiritual location. It houses your soul. If you were born in America all essential communication, your deepest conversations with yourself, will be in English. … Your English is th…"

"Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brush…"

"The God of the Christian is an enthroned guess—a perhaps—an inference."

"But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed fr…"

"God has appionted to the grave of Imām Husayn , four thousand anguished and grief-stricken angels, who weep over him up until the Day of Judgment."

"Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, de…"

"The metaphor of the watch was very much used by the deists. And of course, watches run down, and break down, and it was believed by many of them that if an intelligence had begun the universe, begun t…"

"We spent all our time lighting candles in the churches and praying for father's safe return. But even then , as a little girl, I knew that he was really in prison and that God had nothing to do with i…"

"First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God."

"Illness is essentially discomfort, and it is not easy for anybody to be comfortable all the time... in his body, in his work, in his house, or in his soul."

"At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father."

"By prayer I mean not merely prayer from the mouth, but of the mind and heart, of all the powers of the soul and senses of the body. This is the prayer prayed by the soul who wills and desires to find …"