Alicia Keys

I’ve come into loving and understanding the feminine side of me. How powerful a woman and her femininity is… how strong, how graceful, how gorgeous, how beautiful. I love getting to know the many sides of myself. I embrace them all.

Love is real, love is pure, you only take what you give and give what you take. At its purest it is real. No pretending.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

I’m open and ready to go to the next place, the next level, the next height.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.