“Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul” WorldHeartSoulWisdomTurnsThis WorldEgoGloryVanityVainIslamicBoastHeart And SoulAssertionListen To Your HeartPromptsRecess Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani
“If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.” IfsWorldMindHeartMaySoulChristGoes OnReturnLaborCrossesMissionsVainLightnessFrivolity Author:Brigham Young
“Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.” MenMadeSoulBodyEarthEvilEnergyChristianityStruggleTearsPureWeakFleshVainTortureInjuryDiseasedInception Author:Emma Goldman
“O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!” SoulLeftStrongForceVainShore Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.” IfsLooksSoulBodySpiritDesireEvilImaginationPleasureLordHabitIllusionOvercomingCastsCommitVainTake MePollutionSparesDisregardHurtfulUnlawfulEvil Spirits Author:Lancelot Andrewes
“An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.” SoulGoodnessAppealsVainSensitiveInsult Author:Frederick Rolfe