Said Nursi Quotes

#1. Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

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#2. At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

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#3. The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.

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#4. The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

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#5. In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

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#6. Minds should be enlightened with science, and hearts need to be illumined with religion.

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#7. Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

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#8. A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

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#10. It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question: What is the meaning of la ilaha illa Allah? Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

#11. Time demonstrates that Paradise is not cheap and that Hell is not futile.

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#12. Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

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#13. Are we Muslims because we believe in God Almighty, or do we believe in God because we are Muslims?

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#14. A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no
matter how polished.

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#15. A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

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#16. The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

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#17. Those who attend to the good side of everything contemplate the good. Those who contemplate the good enjoy life.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

#18. Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

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#19. Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

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#21. Life is a manifestation of unity.

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#22. The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

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#23. A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

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#24. What was he doing with her? How on earth could he love her? But he did. Or, at least, she made him feel sick, sad, and distracted. Perhaps there was another way of describing that unique and useless combination of feelings, but "love" would have to do for now.

Nick Hornby

#25. By thus rending the veil of monotony and showing that everything is in constant need of and obedient to His Lordship, He dispels heedlessness and turns humanity and jinn from (natural) causes to Himself as the Creator of causes. This basic principle is evident in the Qur'anic explanations.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

#26. I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

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#27. How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take?

Coretta Scott King

#28. If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

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#29. The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.

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#30. Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.

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#31. The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

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#32. I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Marcella Pixley

#33. The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.

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#34. If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

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