God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.
When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.