"It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time."

-- Ismail al-Faruqi

#Commitment Quotes #Space Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”
“I don't worry about alienating fans. I don't think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn't make money off of record sales it's a great way for us to pay the bills!”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.”
“Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (2014). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.156, SPCK
“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”

Source : Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975
“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

Source : "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, (p. 176), 1988.

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