The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to...
I feel at ease and, in an indefinable way, at home, when dolphins are around. I now know when they are nearby before they appear. I dream after they leave.
Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.
I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and that many do, right now, today, on this earth before rather than after death. I will argue...
Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.
God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.
For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only...
The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body,...
It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.
Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.
Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him
Do you think God truly meant for us to keep Him locked in the church? Is He our Sunday pocket watch we only pull out for weddings and funerals and church services? He wishes for us to think about Him...
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other...
Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that may prevent a man from becoming God's representative on earth
God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!
Embrace your sacred existence.
Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.
Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet {SAWW}, would still be unbelief.
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
A brother once told Al Habīb 'Alī al - Jifrī privately: I feel disconnected. Al Habīb: That is a sign of connection because a disconnected person never feels. Brother: What shall I do? Al Habīb:...
Self importance is pride of a soul.
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, 'You must do this. I can't.'
A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.
Thoughts are pennies from Heaven
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White...
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...