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Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.
Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.
If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.
Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.
Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.
Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.
Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.
The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.
Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.
Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.
The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.