Religious Leader Quotes

What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushes, and on the other half flowers. We also have a water pump with two taps and two channels. The one guides the water to the thorns and the other to the flowers. I always have the choice to open one or the other tap. I leave the thorns without water and they dry up, I water the flowers and they blossom.

Porphyrios Bairaktaris

Eddington's universe goes phut. Richard Tolman's can open and shut. Eddington's bursts without grace or tact, But Tolman's swells and perhaps may contract.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Just as a tower defends a fortress, so humility of heart defends bodily chastity from the darts of fornication.

Anthony of Padua

Acquire a peaceful spirit and then thousands of others around you will be saved.

Seraphim of Sarov

Leave the result to God. From God you have come and unto God you shall go. In between is a temporary passage through time and space. But you are never subject to time and space — you just pass through it. With Guru's blessing, you'll find the guide and the guidance.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?
Not till earth, and not till heaven
Pass away.

Stephen the Hymnographer

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

In the great body of human society it is impossible to establish unity and coordination if one part is considered perfect and the other imperfect. When the perfect functions of both parts are in operation, harmony will prevail. God has created man and woman equal as to faculties. He has made no distinction between them.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.

Russell M. Nelson

The time [will] come when a thousand students [will] be assembled on the hill for the purpose of seeing an education.

David Jewett Waller, Sr.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

Reinhard Bonnke

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that.

Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar

Cast thy burden on the Lord,
Only lean upon His word;
Thou wilt soon have cause to bless
His unchanging faithfulness.

What will you do with Jesus? Do with Him did I say? O what, what will you do without Him f What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? what, when appearing before the awful judgment-seat?

No matter how dynamic a campus work, unless a whole church is "totally committed," the campus ministry's impact would be limited.

It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

Elijah Muhammad

Jesus Christ is not hurried; He calmly rules the storm, and holds the helm of this world in His hand, and it will not drift away from the course designated by the infinite authority and power of God.

David Seth Doggett

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.

William Croswell Doane