Ultimately, deep within, God does everything and you are only an instrument in the hands of God.

In Orthodox life, trust in the mercy of God goes hand in hand with repentance and our willing cooperation with his grace, through prayer, the sacraments, and the daily struggle to love.

I began to appreciate a distinction: A limitation in a person's approach does not necessarily indicate a limitation in their intention.

The unprovability of God is not a bug. On the contrary, it's a feature. And we should be grateful for it.

When I bow before God, I stand upright in the world. When I lay my limits before God in prayer, I straighten up and go on, strengthened.

It is not merely a stringing together of worldly wishes, but rather the most beautiful expression of the fact that the servant recognizes his own weakness, need, and helplessness and seeks refuge in Allah's infinite mercy, grace, and omnipotence.

This is the Way, it is not a Way that you think you transcend or get outside of. So the word is here.

In the eyes of Allah, however, true refinement consists in attaining complete trust in Allah, being able to deeply root His majesties in the heart, and the heart attaining true purity.

The Buddhist teaching is such that we immediately feel better when we apply the teaching.

You just have to show up. Work hard. Give all that you are and all that you have. And Christ will do the rest.

Act as if everything has already been answered. Then act with tireless, ceaseless energy. And while you act, you yourself become a magnet that draws more power into your being, until you become an unobstructed channel through which divine power flows.

One should therefore approach the Eternal in modesty and with an awareness of one's own limitations.

The only way to save the world is to start with ourselves. Our task after the terrorist attacks is to renew the moral foundations of freedom.

To be humanly great therefore does not mean, from a Buddhist perspective, to become greater than others. It means to grow beyond yourself. To become more patient, more compassionate, more mindful, and wiser.

The wisdom of the Buddha, listen, is so deep that one cannot say how deep it is. It is very deep. One cannot say exactly how deep it is here, here. Until the end it will still be deeper.

My mind has been pierced by the Merciful One, o my Mother. Who can know the pain of another? I do not think of anyone else.

Honouring an older Muslim is in truth an act of honouring and glorifying God, the Almighty and Exalted.

Because he disparaged the Hindu New Year festival, a Swiss tourist on Bali has to spend a year in prison.

Human reason, so Kant, has the peculiar fate of being pressed by questions that it necessarily poses to itself, but which it can neither answer definitively nor simply dismiss.

Elon Musk's name will be cursed – the richest person in the history of humankind, who used his wealth and power to kill the most vulnerable people on the planet.

If your mind is directed toward me, you will overcome all obstacles through my grace. But if you do not want to listen to me out of ego, out of ahankara, you will perish.

But do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

No ideology, whether religious or secular, should make us so certain in our understanding that we are no longer willing to acknowledge realities that do not fit into that understanding.

The goal is not that people are impressed by who we are. The greater goal is that they come to Christ through us.