Life Quotes

What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.

J.D. Stroube

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet THE PEOPLE It is the people who are God's family. (Muhammad the Prophet)

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Idries Shah

Dicho del Profeta Práctica ¿Quiénes son los sabios? Aquéllos que ponen en práctica lo que saben.

Idries Shah

Dicho del Profeta Reflejo Los creyentes son espejos, unos para otros.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet Distribution God it is who gives: I am only a distributor.

Idries Shah

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Idries Shah

Teaching One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Idries Shah

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Lionel Shriver

The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorp...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

Carol Emshwiller

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Tom Clancy

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Frank Herbert