Hasan Of Basra Quotes

#1. I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone - then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

Idries Shah

#2. Tell me where it is gone
then I will tell you where it came from.

Hasan Of Basra

#3. I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Alexei Sayle

#4. Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Hasan Of Basra

#5. The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

Hasan Of Basra

#6. The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.

Lorde

#7. Told you to buy a Mac.

Abigail Roux

#8. So though it's true that sin itself is not good, to see our sin is good. Whereas sin leads down a burden-filled path, Jesus says, "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). Confession is essential to that life.

Edward T. Welch

#9. I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds.

Hasan Of Basra

#10. Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Hasan Of Basra

#11. Shannon smiled. "It's snowing. Just a light snow, but look." In that moment, she felt like the snowflakes were angels on wings, and she had witnessed a miracle of nature.

Terry Spear

#12. True villains are extremely photogenic.

Wallace Stevens

#13. Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

Frank Dempster Sherman

#14. We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

Joseph Joubert

#15. Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

W.C. Fields

#16. The little being also contributed to the amazing glow ricocheting from sprawling fronds to soaring trees to fallen leaves as its creativity advanced in a display of twirls and spins that astonished the boys. And they followed their little friend further and further into the forest.

K.N. Smith

#17. That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ...

Marcel Proust

#18. Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

Hasan Of Basra

#19. The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Hasan Of Basra

#20. Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Lewis B. Smedes

#21. Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

Hasan Of Basra

#22. We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

David Agus