Said Nursi Quotes

Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

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ForgivenessGodHeartPathLight

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

John Burns

EffortImpossibleProblemPoverty

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.

Jenna Wortham

TechnologyProblemsCreatingNewWay

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

John Clayton

GodTimeDeathI AmSufferingYou

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

Jeanine Pirro

LifeWomenMeNamePersonCritics

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

John Ruskin

AgeMenPurposeDarkLyingKnight

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Sophocles

WordsPresentPleasureBringEven

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

SilenceAmericaEnvironmentYouFind

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Sol Wachtler

FreePersonGoSeriousCrimeHarm

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

Tony Abbott

PeopleBoatAustraliaWayComing

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Roger Kahn

RacingHorseHorse RacingRoulette

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

TimeResearchWritingBookReading

No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.

Jose Ferreira

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