144 Insightful Religious Quotes

In a world brimming with distraction and turmoil, finding moments of spiritual reflection and clarity can feel like a rare treasure. That's why we've gathered a carefully selected collection of the top 144 insightful religious quotes. These timeless pieces of wisdom span across various faiths and traditions, offering perspectives that can inspire, enlighten, and comfort. Whether you're seeking solace, motivation, or a deeper understanding of the human experience, these quotes serve as a beacon of light to guide your spiritual journey. Dive in and let these pearls of wisdom resonate with your soul.

1. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” - Mother Theresa of Calcutta

2. “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” - Billy Sunday

3. “Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.” - Joseph B. Wirthlin

4. “When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith and hard to believe. At these times only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and understanding. Only faith that He suffered for our sakes will give us the strength to endure to the end. When we gain this faith, we experience a mighty change of heart, and like Enos, we become stronger and begin to feel a desire for the welfare of our brothers and sisters. We pray for them, that they too will be lifted and strengthened through faith on the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ.” - Robert D. Hale

5. “We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!” - Spencer W. Kimball

6. “Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

7. “But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love.” - Anonymous

8. “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence coverd the sky” - Anonymous

9. “Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.” - Spencer W. Kimball

10. “And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C.S. Lewis

11. “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.An evil soul producing holy witnessIs like a villain with a smiling cheek,A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” - William Shakespeare

12. “We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. ” - Jean Vanier

13. “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.” - Yann Martel

14. “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith” - The Apostle Paul

15. “Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

16. “If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.” - Neal A. Maxwell

17. “Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.” - Robert Fulghum

18. “A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.” - Felicia Martin

19. “Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.” - Greg Anderson

20. “God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

21. “Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.” - Laurence Moore

22. “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 like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men' (D&C 135:4). That statement of the Prophet teaches us obedience to law and the importance of having a clear conscience toward God and toward our fellowmen. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught these principles--by example.There was to be one great final lesson before his mortal life ended. He was incarcerated in Carthage Jail with his brother Hyrum, with John Taylor, and with Willard Richards. The angry mob stormed the jail; they came up the stairway, blasphemous in their cursing, heavily armed, and began to fire at will. Hyrum was hit and died. John Taylor took several balls of fire within his bosom. The Prophet Joseph, with his pistol in hand, was attempting to defend his life and that of his brethren, and yet he could tell from the pounding on the door that this mob would storm that door and would kill John Taylor and Willard Richards in an attempt to kill him.And so his last great act here upon the earth was to leave the door and lead Willard Richards to safety, throw the gun on the floor, and go to the window, that they might see him, that the attention of this ruthless mob might be focused upon him rather than the others. Joseph Smith gave his life. Willard Richards was spared, and John Taylor recovered from his wounds.'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13). The Prophet Joseph Smith taught us love--by example.” - Thomas S. Monson

23. “If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.” - Mohammad

24. “Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

25. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” - C. S. Lewis

26. “When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.” - Mahatma Gandhi

27. “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.” - Anonymous

28. “The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.” - Sam Keen

29. “We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.” - Joseph B. Wirthlin

30. “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.” - Joseph Smith Jr.

31. “The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.” - Ardeth G. Kapp

32. “Prayer is a path where there is none.” - Noah BenShea

33. “Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.” - S.M. Stirling

34. “The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.” - Bede Jarrett

35. “We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.” - Billy Graham

36. “With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald” - George MacDonald

37. “Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.” - Seraphim Rose

38. “When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out...” - Seraphim Rose

39. “In that most burdensome moment of all human history, with blood appearing at every pore and an anguished cry upon His lips, Christ sought Him whom He had always sought—His Father. “Abba,” He cried, “Papa,” or from the lips of a younger child, “Daddy.” This is such a personal moment it almost seems a sacrilege to cite it. A Son in unrelieved pain, a Father His only true source of strength, both of them staying the course, making it through the night—together.” - Jeffrey R. Holland

40. “Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14)” - Anonymous

41. “I have come to the conclusion that women believe marriage is proof that they have worth. It is the ultimate game of choosing sides for teams. It is hard to be picked last, but not to be chosen at all is unbearable - especially if you know that you are a good player and can help the team. Not only are you excluded but you also have to stay around and watch the game.” - Kristen McMain Oaks

42. “The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to simply go forward and try to be happy and create a fulfilling life. As women of covenant our goal is to go forward and develop stron testimonies and nurturing and caring hearts that will prepare us for our roles as mothers in eternity. With that end in mind, I determined to go on happily, to become 'anxiously engaged in a good cause' (D&C 58:27), and to believe that the rest would take care of itself.” - Kristen McMain Oaks

43. “Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and our ability to serve and love and laugh and enjoy life do not depend on whether we are married or single. If we look to Christ for answers, He will give them. It also follows that with our increased devotion and understanding of Him, the happier and more complete we will become and the more we will comprehend our true worth in the sight of God.” - Kristen McMain Oaks

44. “No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.” - C. S. Lewis

45. “The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lowly they are.” - G.K. Chesterton

46. “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” - St. Francis Of Assisi

47. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” - Mother Teresa

48. “Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.” - Charlotte Brontë

49. “Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong” - Richard G. Scott

50. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9” - Anonymous

51. “If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer

52. “Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.” - Swami Vivekananda

53. “Never praise oneself.” - Bhagwan Swaminarayan

54. “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” - Vivekananda

55. “When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...” - Ann Benton

56. “The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur.” - Victor Hugo

57. “An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

58. “I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.” - Allen Ginsberg

59. “Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he who walks in love may wander far,Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.” - Henry Van Dyke

60. “But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.” - Henry Van Dyke

61. “Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.” - Margaret Atwood

62. “Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.” - John Paul warren

63. “Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.” - John Paul warren

64. “Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.” - John Paul warren

65. “Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.” - John Paul warren

66. “I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.” - John Paul warren

67. “The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!” - John Paul warren

68. “While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.” - Hyde

69. “Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.” - Masaharu Taniguchi

70. “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.” - Alexandre Dumas

71. “For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.” - Moses Maimonides

72. “The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.” - Mary Stevenson

73. “No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully youcultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquireand which you are not going to receive through revelation.” - Rex E. Lee

74. “Delisa cinta ummi karena Allah.” - Tere Liye

75. “I Choose Love...No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.I Choose Joy...I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.I Choose Peace... I will live forgiven. I will forgive so I may live.I Choose Patience...I will overlook the inconveniences of the world. Instead of cursing the one who takes my place, I'll invite him to do so, Rather complain that the wait is to long, I will thank God for a moment to pray. Instead of clenching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.I Choose Kindness...I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for that is how God has treated me. I Choose Goodness...I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I accuse. I choose goodness.I Choose Faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My friends will not question my word. And my family will not question my love.I Choose Gentleness...Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it only be in praise. If I clench my fist, may it only be in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.I Choose Self-Control...I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace. And then when this day is done I will place my head on my pillow and rest.” - Max Lucado

76. “Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".” - Dr. Amit Abraham

77. “Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come. - On Self-Reflection -” - Kentetsu Takamori

78. “When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!” - Max Lucado

79. “The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.” - Amy Lignor

80. “The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.” - Jorge Luis Borges

81. “God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.” - Bono

82. “God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.” - R.M. ArceJaeger

83. “Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)” - zarathustra

84. “Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you? Who knows but God if he will put you before kings and leaders to speak the truth, redirecting the future of nations? Who knows when that small crack in the dam of our enemy’s plans will give way and God’s glory will truly cover the earth as the sea? Do not become distracted or discouraged by the death around you. Death must always give way when the life of Christ enters the picture.” - Amy Layne Litzelman

85. “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.” - Baha'u'llah

86. “Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what is sometimes called organized religion. They have learned to forgive themselves. They do not expect their institutions to stand in for God, and they are happy to use inherited maps for some of life's journeys. They do not need to walk off every cliff all by themselves. Yet they too can harbor the sense that there is more to life that they are being shown. Where is the secret hidden? Who has the key to the treasure box of More?” - Barbara Brown Taylor

87. “Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.” - Joyce Meyer

88. “The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.” - Joyce Meyer

89. “Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.” - Joyce Meyer

90. “If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.” - Joyce Meyer

91. “If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.” - Kentetsu Takamori

92. “عبر تاريخ طويل مررنا بهزائم و انكسارات , تركت آثارها فينا , بل حفرت داخلنا أخاديد جعلتنا نقنع بأقل القليل .. بل لا نطمح إلا بأقل القليل ..و هكذا فهمنا كل شيء من زاويته الأضيق.. و الأدنى .. و لم نعد نتوقع من أنفسنا إلا ما هو متدن و رديء فقدنا احترامنا لأنفسنا و تدنى تقويمنا لها و لإمكانياتنا .. لم نعد نتوقع من أنفسنا أي شيء إيجابي كما سيفعل شخص أدمن الهزيمة و صارت هويته اللصيقة به .لم نعد نرضى بأوساط الحلول فحسب .. بل صرنا نرضى بالفتات .. بل نطالب بالفتات .. نفاوض من أجل الفتات .. بل ما هو دون الفتات ..في كل شيء... حتى فيما نتوقعه من الصلاة.” - أحمد خيري العمري

93. “He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.” - Elizabeth Elliot

94. “Because He lives, I can face yesterday.” - Jared C. Wilson

95. “The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.” - Karl Rahner

96. “He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.” - Martin Luther

97. “Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)” - Kentetsu Takamori

98. “يمكن للصلاة عندما تكون حقا صلاة , أن تكون خبزنا , لأنها ستعلمنا كيف نكون ناضجين بما فيه الكفاية لنصنع خبزنا بأنفسنا , الصلاة هي خبزنا الحقيقي لأنها ستجعلنا راشدين بما فيه الكفاية لنزرع قمحنا و نسقيه و نرعاه و من ثم نحصده لنطحنه و نأكل خبزنا من صنع أيدينا.” - أحمد خيري العمري

99. “Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?” - Kentetsu Takamori

100. “We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

101. “ليس هناك ما هو أفظع من قهر الأحرار ، فقلوبهم التي تنبض بسلام .. أو تتدفق رحمة تصبح في لحظة اذلال براكين وشواظ من نار ونحاس ..وما الثورات التي تندلع كحرائق مجنونة إلا غضب مقدس يختار فيه الأحرار الفناء من أجل الكرامة ..” - كمال السيد

102. “frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.” - Joyce Meyer

103. “It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.” - Steve Maraboli

104. “We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.” - Scot McKnight

105. “I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.” - Venus Angelica Perez

106. “Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be.” - Edward Babinski

107. “Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.” - Dr. Amit Abraham

108. “Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT” - Eddie Johnson

109. “И на съвършените съвършенството е несъвършено. Св. Иоан Лествичник” - Преподобный Никодим Святогорец

110. “Съвестта е онзи глас Божий в нас, онова огледало, в което ние се оглеждаме и виждаме своите недостатъци.” - Схиархимандрит Касиан

111. “Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.” - Brennan Manning

112. “I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.” - TobyMac

113. “God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.” - Paulo Coelho

114. “All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus preparing for that greater Eucharist when human life would commune with the Divine. Mary’s joy was to form Christ in her own body; her joy now is to form Christ in our souls. In this Mystery, we pray to become pregnant with the Christ spirit, giving Him new lips with which He may speak of His Father, new hands with which He may feed the poor, and a new heart with which He may love everyone, even enemies.” - Fulton J. Sheen

115. “A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.” - Shannon L. Alder

116. “Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.” - Deepak Chopra

117. “If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.” - Deepak Chopra

118. “Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that wemay know Thee.”“We beseech Thee, Lord and Master, to be our help and succour. Save those among us who are intribulation; have mercy on the lowly; lift up the fallen; show Thyself to those in need; heal the sick; turnagain the wanderers of Thy people; feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; raise up the weak; comfortthe faint-hearted. Let all nations know that Thou art God alone, and that Jesus Christ is Thy Son, andthat we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture.”“We praise Thee who art able to do these and better things than these, through Jesus Christ the HighPriest and Guardian of our souls, through whom be glory and majesty to Thee, both now andthroughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.” - St. Clement of Rome 100 A.D.

119. “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 that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.” - Frederick Buechner

120. “I don't mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch.- Hjalti Skjeggjason” - Robert Ferguson

121. “وهل كانت الاديان السماوية كلها فى جوهرها الا دعوة للحب والرحمة والعطف والعدل والسلام؟ وهل كان الانبياء والمصلحون جميعا الا محبين للبشر والانسانية وقادرين على العطاء لهم والتضحية واحتمال الاذى من اجلهم؟ وكل ذلك فى النهاية من احوال الحب الصادق.. وان اختلفت المجالات.. وتنوعت اساليب التعبير.. وتعددت الاقنعة!” - عبد الوهاب مطاوع

122. “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.” - Fulton J. Sheen

123. “We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.” - Sarah McCoy

124. “You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.” - Eugene H. Peterson

125. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16” - John Apostle

126. “I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.” - Habeeb Akande

127. “ووالله لولا كراهية تمني البلاء, ولولا امر النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لأمته بسؤال العافية, ولولا عدم معرفتنا امكانية صبرنا عند وقوع البلاء من عدمه, لكان تمني مثل هذا البلاء هو فعل الاذكياء النبهاء.” - خالد أبو شادي

128. “The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.” - Frederick Buechner

129. “Where's your church?""We're standing in it.""But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday.""Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.” - Forrest Church

130. “But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.” - Barbara Kingsolver

131. “The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.” - Violette Nakhjavani

132. “All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone--for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.” - St John Vianney

133. “Juliet by Ann Fortier. The Maestro (Chapter5) ... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat near what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for the history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears.” - Anne Fortier

134. “Take no stock in saying, "never", because it carries no guarantee.” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

135. “Тогава си счел всички земни придобивки за нищо. И сега недей да милееш за нищо. Имай готовност, като захвърлиш всичко, да останеш гол.” - Святитель Феофан Затворник

136. “Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.” - Neil Abramson

137. “A respectful woman is a righteous woman.” - Habeeb Akande

138. “Fear no one except the One.” - Habeeb Akande

139. “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 lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of knowledge and education. To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups. Perhaps understanding will lead to a marvelous day when we take a last fleeting look at violence so harmful to so many. I sincerely believe that nothing will further the cause of peace more than the education of our young. I would like for readers to know that a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the cause of education.May all roads lead to peace.” - Jean Sasson

140. “Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.” - Habeeb Akande

141. “إذا كان الوضع الذي ساد في عالم الإسلام لترتيب العلاقة بين العقل والنقل; وأعني بالكيفية التي ظل معها العقل تابعا لسلطة النقل علي نحو شبه كامل, هو ما يؤسس لهذا التصور الغالب عن قصور العقل واحتياجه, فإن أصل هذا الوضع لا يرتد- علي عكس ما يتبادر سريعا للذهن- إلي الإسلام نفسه, بل إنه يجد ما يؤسسه كاملا في قلب الثقافة السابقة عليه, والتي يبدو- وللمفارقة- أن الإسلام قد قصد إلي زحزحة وإزاحة نظامها الكلي, علي الرغم من إدماجه لبعض عناصرها الجزئية في صميم بنائه. فإنه إذا كان التحليل يكشف عن أن من قاموا علي صياغة التيار الغالب في ثقافة الإسلام( الذين يتناسلون في سلالة ممتدة من علماء الأصول الكبار من مثل الشافعي وابن حنبل والأشعري والباقلاني والجويني والغزالي وابن تيمية وغيرهم) قد كرسوا تبعية- تتفاوت حدودها- من العقل للنقل, فإنه يبدو- وللغرابة- أن الترتيب الذي كرسه هؤلاء المؤسسون الكبار للعلاقة بين العقل والنقل, يمثل انحرافا عن ترتيب العلاقة بينهما الذي ينبني عليه فعل الوحي ذاته; وهو الفعل المؤسس للإسلام كدين.” - علي مبروك

142. “يتبدي الوحي، إذن، لا بوصفه من قبيل المعرفة المعطاة المفروضة على الوعي كسلطة لا سبيل أمامه إلا لمحض الإذعان والخضوع لها، بقدر ما يمثل نوعاً من الاستجابة الخلاقة المطلوبة لوضع إنساني مأزوم لا يقدر الوعي؛ الذي هو بنية تطورية في جوهرها، على التعاطي معه في مرحلة دنيا من مراحل تطوره. وهكذا فإن الوحي يتبلور كسند ومعين للوعي، ونقطة ارتكاز يستند إليها في سعيه إلى تجاوز أزمة واقعه، ولا يتبلور أبداً كضد ونقيض يفرض نفسه كسلطة متعالية لا يملك الوعي إلا محض التبعية لها.” - علي مبروك

143. “إن الأطلقة( كآلية تفكير تسود فضاء التفكير العربي من دون تمييز بين تراثي وحداثي)- وليس سواها- هي ما يحيل تجارب البشر من تاريخ حي إلي نص أو أصل جامد يقف خارجه; علي النحو الذي يكون معه أشبه بالشاهد المصمت المعلق علي قبر صاحبه, والذي لا يعرف الخلف اللاحق إلا التعبد في ظلاله. وتلك هي جوهر الممارسة السلفية; علي أن يكون معلوما أن هذه الممارسة لا تقف عند حدود من يقال أنهم سلفيو هذا الزمان, بل تتجاوزهم إلي من يقال أنهم حداثيوه أيضا. و سواء مورست هذه الأطلقة, تحت يافطة الدين أو العلمانية, فإنها تمثل خطراً داهماً علي الدولة.” - علي مبروك

144. “For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong with them, you are always an infidel.” - M.F. Moonzajer