Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Hepler

We feel that sometimes the personal touch from other Christians is important.

William Carey

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.

John Powell

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Alan Green

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.

Alan Green

As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

Al Sharpton

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

Rumi

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Rumi

Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

Rumi

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Tony Campolo

I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

Katie Featherston

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

James Redfield

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

Charles Manson

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

Shea Hembrey

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

Bernie Siegel

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

Jan Morris

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Bernard Malamud

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Bob Marley

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.