Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
We gain internal freedom through external actions.
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.
The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments.
People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.
People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.
What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around.
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
