"The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad."

-- Al-Tabarani

#Prayer Quotes #Sound Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.”
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
“I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'”
“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”
“If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.
“Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.”
“We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.”
“A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.”

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