I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.
– Camilla Gibb
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- A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That’s farga, the groups-”Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups. – Michael Muhammad Knight
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- I don’t like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist. – Stephen Colbert
- Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. – Sam Harris
- You can take the Muslim out of the Caliphate, but you can’t take the Caliphate out of the Muslim. – Mike Klepper
- My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects. – Ashwin Sanghi
- There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
- There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries. – Nathan Hill
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- Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life. – Matias Dalsgaard
- I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep – Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPrigord
- One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode. – Dean Francis Alfar
- To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
- Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another. – Marquita BurkeDeJesus
- I’d like to say I’m not self-absorbed compared to others, but that’s hard to say since I’m far too self-absorbed to pry into others’ self-absorption. – Anonymous
- Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity. – Jocelyn Gibb
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- No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self. – Abhijit Naskar
- The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul. – Moosa Rahat
- No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion. – Abhijit Naskar
- Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature. – Abhijit Naskar
- Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
- The Quran holds the answer to all. Have you opened it? – Zarina Bibi
- And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror]. – Quran
- And speak to people good [words] – Quran
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- Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry. – Akshay Vasu
- For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance. – Charmaine J Forde
- Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. – R Scott Bakker
- In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased. – Manoj Vaz
- As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died. – SA Tawks
- God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching. – Billy Graham
- So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny! – Avijeet Das
- making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath. – Amy Harmon