For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that “suits” him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?

Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations. We will receive the joy of forgiveness...

I cattolici mi rendono nervoso perché sono sleali. E i protestanti? domandò ridendo, quelli mi fanno star male con quel loro pasticciare intorno alla coscienza. E gli atei? rideva ancora. Quelli mi annoiano perché parlano sempre di Dio. E lei che cos’è, in conclusione? Io sono un clown.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people’s garbage.

Janganlah bersiap untuk sesuatu yang diharapkan, tetapi bersiaplah untuk apapun yang telah Allah takdirkan. Sebab, itu sudah pasti yang terbak.

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.

If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.

As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our moment bright and to live to ur full potential, married or not.

When the GRACE of God is empty in a man’s life then the DISGRACE of the devil comes in.

In no way are we anti-Catholic or anti-religious. The chancellor’s main objection to this is the use of state dollars for a religious worship purpose. The legal work we’ve done shows that would not be proper.

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you...

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one’s own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious – and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear

I’m religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Tuhan ingin menyampaikan risalah kepada manusia. Untuk itu Tuhan mengirim Rasul-rasul dan Nabi Muhammad adalah salah satu dari Rasul-rasul itu. Risalah yang ingin disampaikan Tuhan ialah norma-norma akhlak dan syariat.

I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny”.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred close to the time of his death. He was required to leave his plan and vision of the Rocky Mountains and give himself up to face a court of supposed justice.These are his words: ‘I am going...

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.

I don’t mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch.- Hjalti Skjeggjason

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. … So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

A righteous wife is a respectful wife.

Maybe it’s all utterly meaningless. Maybe it’s all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we’re in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to...

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the...

After debating with a religious scholar you leave the room but suddenly you are pushed and about to hit the ground. If you fall and hit the ground; they will tell you, you saw the power of God he made you fall and now you are on the ground. If you fall but not hit...

Knowledge and the study of God’s Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.