12 Quotes Tagged: inspirational-religious

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

"The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal."

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.