Israel Kamakawiwo'ole famous quotes

03-28-2025

  • I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  • We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  • Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

  • The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

  • Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

  • If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  • The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  • You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

  • The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

  • The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.