The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

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.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Religion is just mind control.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.