Theologian Quotes

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror.

You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill.

Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

A dog barks when his master is attacked.

I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

We can choose to be grateful no matter what.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then.

If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

There are two great days in a persons life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.

Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil;

by learning the potential becomes actual.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear.

Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.