Huston Smith Quotes

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Med...

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are ...

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate an...

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y...

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists...

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures ...

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on othe...

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish it...

The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in...

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the ...

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"To slave away on the pointless business of m...

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never t...

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell...