Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ”

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans. ”

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other. ”

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books. ”

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. ”

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do. ”

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path. ”

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ”

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments. ”

When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation. ”