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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity
It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.
When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.
The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.
Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.
For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.
Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.
Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.