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Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.
Hamza Yusuf
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Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.
Scot McKnight
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The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
Marcus Borg
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When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
Origen
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Those who would give us a living Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.
Kevin Gutzman
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Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Hamza Yusuf
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I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.
Hamza Yusuf
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Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed
Hamza Yusuf
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What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
Origen
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Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
Hamza Yusuf
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Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.
Ibn Majah
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God is love so all God does is loving.
Scot McKnight
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Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
Hamza Yusuf
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To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth.
Marcus Borg
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
Rodolphus Agricola
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The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.
Origen
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Angels are here and around us perhaps all around us. But we have to have an ear for them and an eye for them, and that only comes when we have the courage and faith to open ourselves to a world inhabited by more than humans and animals. There are angels around us.
Scot McKnight
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People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.
Hamza Yusuf
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Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.
Cathy Davidson
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In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.
Hamza Yusuf
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When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.
Diana L. Eck
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
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I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
Stanley Fish
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When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.
Marcus Borg
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