religion

"The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity."

"God, you make me sing. Funny things about you You infect my mind. All the time, you do."

"Whenever you look, God is there. But is He a rock or a stone or a sun or a moon or a bone? No. His sound is there and His warnings are there. You can see Him. You can see His sound, His words, His spe…"

"My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction."

"Akbar was now informed that Haji Khan, a ghulam of Sher Khan Afghan , a brave and able general, was setting up pretensions to rule in Alwar and that Himu’s father and wife, and all his property and we…"

"A couple nights ago, I was licking jelly off my boyfriend's penis. And I thought, "Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!"

"The Christian who does not now render assistance in following up the victory God has granted proves himself unworthy of divine favours."

"God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!"

"Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion. Further, such …"

"The urge behind evolution, and the objective which this urge is impelling us toward, is simply the divine hunger in the universe to grow greater. It is innate in the universe. Why this is so, no one c…"

"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. T…"

"Work out your own salvation." Work, as well as believe; and in the daily practice of faithful obedience, in the daily subjugation of your own spirits to His Divine power, in the daily crucifixion of y…"

"Dignified restraint is the hallmark of abhinaya....The divine is divine only because of its suggestive, subtle quality."

"My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul."

"Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan."

"His days were full of meaningless ceremonies whose sacredness appeared to be in inverse ratio to their comprehensibility or usefulness."

"When a Muslim marries he perfects half his religion, and he should practice abstinence for the remaining half."

"Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and…"

"Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind,…"

"God protect me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. ."