Life Quotes

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Saying of the Prophet Envy Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Idries Shah

the only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark

C.J. Roberts

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Sigmund Freud

All lines are gray in the dark.

Nenia Campbell

Saying of the Prophet Oppression When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Idries Shah

Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Idries Shah

It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worth...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Jim Butcher

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Ink and Blood The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Struggle The holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Idries Shah

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Idries Shah

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Idries Shah

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Frank Herbert

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Idries Shah

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God doesn't ask us to understand, but He does ask us to trust.

Kristen McNulty