“The bible is literature, not dogma.”

“When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no—I believe in people—I” 

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.” 

“My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.”

“Charity means pardoning the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.”

“Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.”

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” 

“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.” 

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Why, when God’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

We are all the same… all the same… longing to find our way back… back to the One… back to the only One!

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another… It’s all praise, and it’s all right.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of God. 

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedommore precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.