religion

"To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher."

"But first me behoveth to tell you as anent my feebleness, wretchedness and blindness. — I have said in the beginning: And in this all my pain was suddenly taken from me: of which pain I had no grief n…"

"Abyss calls to abyss." It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we wi…"

"It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wr…"

"...The modern fading of interest in religion."

"Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of Allah for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended."

"118. Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God."

"Keep your honor code between you and God, you don’t break that, no matter who’s not looking. God is."

"Since when has America with all its hordes of gangsters and beggars become God's Kingdom?"

"One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication."

"Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the…"

"Well, you know I used to play piano for the church. You know that spiritual, 'Give Me that Old Time Religion', most churches just say, "Give me that old time religion" but I did, "Give me that old tim…"

"The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."

"When Christianity came into the world the task was simply to proclaim Christianity. The same is the case wherever Christianity is introduced into a country the religion of which is not Christianity."

"Because of these rulers’ oppressive behavior towards God’s guests, the world of Islam must fundamentally reconsider the management of the two holy places and the issue of hajj. Negligence in this rega…"

"Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience."

"God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it."

"It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God."

"When I was a young writer there had been a stage where Camus, almost more than any other contemporary literary figure, radically set the tone for my own view of life and history. I read his novel The …"

"It is manifest that every soul has a certain continuity with the soul of the Universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is a…"