My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.
There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.
The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.