فاروق

“A man might spend a lifetime reading spiritual books and studying the writings of the great mystics. He might feel that he had penetrated the secrets of the heavens and the earth, but unless this knowledge was incorporated into his very nature and transformed him, it was sterile. I began to suspect that a simple man of faith, praying to God with little understanding but with a full heart, might be worth more than the most learned student of the spiritual sciences.”
― Charles Le Gai Eaton, Islam and the Destiny of Man

“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time