"Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it."

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Religious Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
“I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.”
“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.”
“The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.”
“The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.”
“While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.”

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