Sake Quotes

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.