Josphine Aziz > Josphine's Quotes

“This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoke before or since and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.”
― John Schaff

“...We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think "I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me." No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing." He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely. That is why I am going to love my spouse.' Speak to your heart like that, and then fulfill the promises you made on your wedding day.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Your call is clear, cold centuries across;
You bid me follow you, and take my cross,
And daily lose myself, myself deny,
And stern against myself shout ‘Crucify’.

My stubborn nature rises to rebel
Against your call. Proud choruses of hell
Unite to magnify my restless hate
Of servitude, lest I capitulate.

The world, to see my cross, would pause and jeer.
I have no choice, but still to persevere
To save myself – and follow you from far,
More slow than Magi-for I have no star.

And yet you call me still. Your cross
Eclipses mine, transforms the bitter loss
I thought that I would suffer if I came
To you- into immeasurable gain.

I kneel before you, Jesus, crucified,
My cross is shouldered and my self denied;
I’ll follow daily, closely, not refuse
For love of you and man myself to lose.”
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

“when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“تظنُّ بأنني قادرة على أن أترك كل شيء خلفي وأن أمضي قُدماً.. لكنني مازلتُ معلقة، ما زلت أتكئ على جدارك الضبابي بانتظار أن تنزل سلالم النور إليَّ من حيث لا أحتسب، سلالم ترفعني إلى حيث لا أدري وتنتشلني من كل هذه الُلجَّة..
قهرني هذا الحب، قهرني لدرجة أنني لم أعد أفكر في شيء غيره، أحببتك إلى درجة أنك كنت كل أحلامي.. لم أُكن بحاجة لحلم آخر.. كنت الحلم الكبير، العظيم، الشهي.. المطمئن.. الذي لا يضاهيه في سموه ورفعته حلم.. أقاومك بضراوة، أقاوم تخليك عني بعنف أحياناً وبضعف أحياناً أخرى، أقاوم رغبتك في أن تتركني لأنه لا قُدرة لي على أن أتقبّل تركك إياي.. أصرخ في وجهك حيناً، وأبكي أمامك حيناً آخر ومخالب الذل تنهش أعماقي..
مصلوب أنت في قلبي.. فرجُلُ مثلك لا يموت بتقليدية، رجل مثلك يظل على رؤوس الأشهاد.. لا يُنسى ولا يرحل ولا يموت كباقي البشر..”
― أثير عبدالله, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“كنت مؤمناً بأن البكاء من شيم النساء .. لكن الحياة علمتنّي أن البكاء من شيم الأسوياء”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, في ديسمبر تنتهي كل الأحلام

“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“يارب
ياللي سايبلي الحبل ع الغارب
أنا غرقان بدون قارب
ومعرفتش أعوم وحدي
وكل ما امدلك يدي
وتنشلني
وأعوم شبرين
إديا يفلفصوا الاتنين
وأقولك سيبلي انا الباقي
تسيبلي الحبل ع الغارب
تخش المية حلقي .. اشرق
فاصرخلك .. وأقول بغرق
وأقولك عمري ما حسيبك
فتنشلني
أعوم شبرين
إديا يفلفصوا الاتنين
وأسيب إيدك
وأعيد الكرّه ميت مره
وماتخذلنيش ولا مره
تقوللي حضنهم بره
لا عمره يساع دراع سيدك
ونا لسه
بسيب إيدك !”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, ويسترن يونيون فرع الهرم

“تفرانيل 100
انا شعرى غامق
بس قلبى مطقطق ابيض من زمان
جايز عشان
الناس ساعات بتلاقى ناس
تعرف تشوفها بجد
و انا قلبى لسه عمره ما اتكشف ع حد
بقابل اد ما اقابل
و افارق اد ما افارق
و ما اتعلمش
بلخبط ف الاسامى عشان
بخاف انسى
بلخبط ف الدنيا عشان
بخاف لا ما اعيشش
بقالى كتير ما بتكلمش
بخاف يبقى الكلام متعاد
ما كملتش ف اى رحيل
ما كملتش ف اى قعاد
و بدى للحياة بالكاد
ما يكفيها
و يكفينى
شرور البهدلة فيها
مليش ف البنت طلبات غير
تنسينى اللى قبليها
و بدخل ف حاجات تخاطيف
و عينى ع اللى بعديها
رقصت كتير ع السلم
بخاف اطلع
و اخاف من الارض
- اكيد الخوف مش الفكرة
و حتى يا ستى يعنى بفرض
اكيد الخوف مهواش عيب
طبيعى الناس تخاف من الغيب
و من المقدور
برغم كدة
بحب الضلمة اكتر ما بحب النور
ساعات بتمنى شقة ف برج شايفة النيل
و اوقات انى اعيش مستور
و بزهد .. ف كل ما ف الرحلة من زخرف
و ما زهدهاش
ما دام فيها رمق يتعاش
اكيد ف الرحلة يوم متحاش
و مستنى اعدى عليه
- و تعرف عنه اصلا اية ؟
مفيش غير انه لسه مجاش
بنام ؟
طبعا .. كتير جدا
و بالايام
و طول الوقت بحلم ان انا بجرى
و بشبع من الحاجات بدرى
و رغم كدة لسه ما شبعتش
من الجرى و من الاحلام
بخاف من الموت
عشان خايف ساعتها اكون
عبيط .. كل اللى سيبته كلام
بشوف افلام
عن الدنيا
و عن حكايات
لناس عاشت حاجات تانية
و عن حكايات لناس ماعاشوش
و بتأثر
و بتحسر
ع كل اللى كان ممكن
اكونه
بس ما بقيتهوش
ما سبتش شئ مجربتوش
ولا جربته و ما سبتوش
بحب العود
و احب الناى
و اموت و اعرف حقيقى ازاى
حاجات من دى
ساعات بتدب فيها الروح
من اللمس و من الانفاس
فتبقى حية اكتر من البشر و الناس
مفيش احساس
لحسن الحظ و لسوئه
ما بيعديش
مفيش ولا طعم حاجة من اللى بتدوقه
مسيره يعيش
بحلوه و بمره كله بيتسخط لمفيش
يا سبحان اللى بيعودنا ع الحاجة
فننساها
و بيخفف كاسات الناس
بميه بدال ما يملاها
عشان طعم اللى فيها يروح
عشان طعم اللى فيها يخف
يقولوا مجازا المجروح
اذا خد ع الوجع .. بيخف
تلف عليه سواقى الكون
تدوب اللى فات
ف الجاى
ف سبحانه اما قال
منها جعلنا
( كل شئ حى )
زمان فيه حد علمنا
ف درس الدين
دعاء بيقول :
يا خالق كل شئ ناقص .. كمالته معاك
يا شايل من الحاجات حتة .. بنترجاك
بحق المشهد الكامل
و اسمك اللى انا عرفته
تسيب اللى يكفينا
و تكفينا بما سبته
ما تحوجناش
لجاى مجاش
و ترضينا بما جبته
و ندعى وراه بصوت عالى
يرج الفصل رج خفيف
و اكمل دعوتى ف سرى
( و ترحم قلبى ف شيبته )
كما تدعو الفروع الاصل
دعوتها
ف كل خريف”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو

“في حاجات لازم علشان نعرف درجة قوتها بنكسرها ... وحاجات في إيدينا علشان نعرف إننا عايزينها بنخسرها .”
― مصطفى إبراهيم

“ناقص حته
وكل ما أوزن
ألاقي لسه
ناقصلي حته
أحط حته
تقل حته
وأجيب قميص
تضيع چاكته
وأعيش لي ساعة
يفوتني سته
وكل ما أوزن
ألاقي ناقص
أقول بناقص
لو هي حته
أتاري لسه
ولسه تاخد
سنين وحته
وحاجات تسيبني
وحاجات تاخدني
لحاجات تخبط
في كل حته
وأقول ها نفرح
ف يوم
ها نفرح
ويوم مانفرح
علي الله يفضل
في القلب حته”
― علي سلامة, ناقص حتة

“أنا لما بافرح
بحكى للدنيا كلها
حتى لطوب الأرض
واحزن.. أخبى
واسكت كأنى
عمرى ما عرفت الكلام”
― علي سلامة

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez