Spiritual Quotes

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"When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things."

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"If your heart is cold, my fire will not warm it."

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"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics."
--Charles Peguy

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"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"


Phyllis Diller

There may need to be sacrificial lambs. I’m going to play this role and speak my conscience.

—Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

Western thought works by thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

Judaism goes thesis, antithesis, antithesis, antithesis....


—the Rabbi in Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat.

"now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love."

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"I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me."

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"Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.

If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth

That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,

Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.

God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.

The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:

Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.

But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town."


--Hafiz (translated by Ladinsky)

Chris Wilton: "After [my father] lost both his legs, he found Jesus."

Tom Hewett (trying to contain his laughter): "He heh. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't sound like a fair trade."

--from Match Point, written by Woody Allen

"It is not the world that needs peace; it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace."
Maharaji Prem Rawat

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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

Mother Teresa

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"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

Mother Teresa

"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

--Sophocles

"The God I believe in is not the God you don't believe in"

CS LEWIS

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction…that the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.

Russell Bertrand, British atheist

Finding true joy is the hardest of all spiritual tasks. If the only way to make yourself happy is by doing something silly, do it.

—Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav