The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Seeing is not always believing.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.