This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.
And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the eff...
… when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a c...
These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introduc...
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometime...
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himsel...
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.
It's a pelvis thrust, not a pelvic wiggle.
Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...
Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences...
It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess." "And everything awful used to be something good.
