Gold Turtle

“No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam

“نحن شعب يحب الموتى، ولا يرى مزايا الأحياء حتى يستقروا في باطن الأرض.”
― يوسف السباعي, أرض النفاق

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to
salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task was
to get the Arabs to think about religion in a novel way, to inculcate in them a new conceptual frame of reference, to transfer them from one worldview to another, and higher, one. This process of transformation took them from traditionalism to individualism, from impulsiveness to discipline, from supernaturalism to science, from intuition to conscious reasoning and, in the end, ideally, harmonized the whole.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam