Said Nursi Quotes

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.

We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.

The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.