"Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening - no signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn't the point, the Shaykh explained. What mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually. Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr."

-- Kristiane Backer

#Tired Quotes #Dhikr Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.”
“I know I'm no Whitney Houston.”
“Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.”
“I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.”
“If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.”
“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.”
“Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.”
“I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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