Do not set yourself on fire in order to keep others warm.
Ask yourself if what you’re doing today will get you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
It’s difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.
PSALM 115 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
Police are the blue helmets pretending to be batman, commercially gender biased in employment.
I kissed fate on the cheek and she spat in my face.
Illegitmi non carburandum !
REV21.5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. REV21.6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Do everything in love.
The nurse becomes willing to sacrifice herself for the patient. But the patient isn’t suffering from an external illness, he’s suffering from self-inflicted wounds. The nurse wants to prevent him from this pain. The patient wants her to feel the pain too. How else will she understand him? So she joins him. Now there are two patients.
When things don’t happen right away, just remember: it takes 6 months to build a Rolls-Royce and just 13 hours to build a Toyota.
A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently into the bedroom as shafts of dawn sunlight.
So they put them to flight by Allah’s permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Allah gave him kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for Allah’s repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be in a state of disorder; but Allah is Gracious to the creatures.
Human wisdom tells us to get as much as we can, believe only what we can see, enjoy pleasure, and avoid pain. God’s wisdom tells us to give all we can, believe what we can’t see, enjoy service, and expect persecution. See that your life reflects the difference.
Everyone is a reader... Some just haven’t found their favourite book yet.
I couldn’t help thinking how good I’d had it, until now – the fact that love had always been a pleasure and never a pain. I had never been forced, nor had I ever had to force myself. Everything had been good the way it was.
Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do...
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
I never thought a little time and space would turn into miles and worlds apart.
One who has unreliable friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.