“When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 470.
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The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), p. 10
“Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.”
Attributed in emails in 1999, as debunked at "Malice of Absence" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp#MX2FyfdMLHissI4T.99
This statement has been attributed to others before Einstein; its first attribution to Einstein appears to have been in an email story that began circulating in 2004. See the Urban Legends Reference Pages http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp for more discussion.
Misattributed
Variant: Evil is the absence of God.
Source: Against the Heavenly Prophets in the Matter of Images and Sacraments (1525), pp. 84-85
by means of prayers
Kanzul `Ummal, Volume7, Tradition 18973
Shi'ite Hadith
"The Fool-Killer"
The Voice of the City (1908)
Context: I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.