Fethullah Gulen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#God #Spiritual #People
Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Love #Happiness #Future
Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Love #God #Blessing
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Respect #Spiritual #Discipline
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Love #God #Loyalty
Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Past #Giving #Today
Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Agreement #Tolerance #Handicaps
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Wisdom #Islamic #Goal
A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Wisdom #Islamic #Inspire
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#War #Air #Talking
Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.
-- Fethullah Gulen

#Mean #Maturity #Differences

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