Michel Aflaq famous quotes

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.
-- Michel Aflaq

#Giving #Survival #Islam

Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.
-- Michel Aflaq

#Past #Europe #Islam

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.
-- Michel Aflaq

#Book #Class #Needs

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

We have ourselves to save.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.