A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Trust comes from courage

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.

Greece is the most magical place on Earth.