Son Quotes - Page 2

Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don't stop singing.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

There are serious mistakes - among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel... Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion... It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed... All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers.

Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.

Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!