Mansur Al Hallaj Quotes

#1. God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#2. God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#3. It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.

Christine Baranski

#4. I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Linford Christie

#5. Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#6. He acts without contact,instructs without meeting,guides without pointing.Desires do not conflict with Him,thoughts do not mingle with Him:His essence is without qualification (takyeef),His action without effort (takleef).

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#7. Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Amy Chua

#8. Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#10. The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Augusto Boal

#11. The man is a nincompoop and a fool. Even worse, he took me for a fool as well.

John Flanagan

#12. There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God,

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#13. God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#14. Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#15. Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Robin G. Collingwood

#16. Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Charles Stanley

#17. The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#18. I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#19. Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Stefan Sagmeister

#20. The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Edith Wharton

#21. My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

Ronan Farrow

#22. I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart,And I said: Truly there is no doubt that it is You.It is You that I see in everything;And I do not see You through anything (but You).

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#23. I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

Tony Oliva

#24. Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

Leo Burnett

#25. What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#26. Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition.He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#27. My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

Julie Kagawa

#28. To declare a thing is to possess it.

Lailah Gifty Akita