Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.