Religious person - a definition

"A religious person is the one who holds God and fellow human being in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
Abraham J. Heschel

What are hearts for?

"Hearts are containers for the Love of Allah (SWT) and His Rasool (PBUH), If we do not fill them with what is virtuous, they will become filled with what is vile”
Sheikh Mokhtar Maghroubi on “The Vital Signs of a Living Heart”

On intellect and the heart

“It is useless to have a learned tongue but an ignorant heart.”
[Shaykh Abdal Qadir al-Jilani]

Attaining purity

Purity does not lie in rituals, nor can human nature be changed by effort. Those who love God and remain conscious only of their Beloved attain purity. [Al Hujwiri]