Quotes About Jahiliyya

#1. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Sayyid Qutb

#2. Being gifted doesn't mean you've been given something. It means, you have something to give.

Pleasefindthis

#3. How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things?

Jeaniene Frost

#4. The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Ellen Glasgow

#5. Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#6. I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth

Edward M. Peters

#7. History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Sarah Churchwell

#8. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

Bill Bryson

#9. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Mark Batterson

#10. The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

Plato

#11. I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde

#12. To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#13. How can teachers teach when parents demand exceptions and cry foul every time their kid gets crossways? Sometimes we step in and advocate, but sometimes our kids are lame and need to own up. Let them feel the sting of detention, a zero, a lost privilege, a time-out. Let failure instruct them.

Jen Hatmaker

#14. Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Henry Ford