Haj Quotes

#1. In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

Robyn Davidson

#2. the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.

Malala Yousafzai

#3. NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

James Appathurai

#4. Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

Leila Aboulela

#5. When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found
in the sky if you look long and hard enough.

Susan Abulhawa

#6. I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.

Joseph Heller

#7. Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

Dave Grohl

#8. If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

#9. Art
the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos
art, not politics, is the remedy.

Saul Bellow

#10. If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

Garry McCarthy

#11. I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini

#12. Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini

#13. Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

John Arlott

#14. Sometimes misfortune brings opportunity

Jocelyn Murray

#15. Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. God creates the world anew in each moment.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#17. In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story ... There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

Helen Humphreys

#18. When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

Dale Carnegie

#19. The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Childe Hassam

#20. To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,

Anne Bradstreet