Religious Enlightenment Quotes

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.