Prophet Abraham Quotes

#1. Eid happens twice a year - Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" commemorates the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.

Malala Yousafzai

#2. Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

Brigham Young

#3. The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

Swami Chetanananda

#5. Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#6. acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns.

Jonathan Haidt

#7. Being a creator is more important than the whole world.

Deepak Chopra

#8. So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

Norman Geisler

#9. There I find an Ark torn asunder and a Vicegerent over Yonder

Saqib Abraham

#10. A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#11. I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

Desmond Tutu

#12. I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.

Pearl Abraham

#13. Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Vladimir Kramnik

#14. I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

Sylvia Plath

#15. It's not the weight of the load, but how you carry it.
~Lena Horne~

Trenice Carter