Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

It is not more than you can handle. It is merely more than you thought you could do.

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.