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    The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places -- to comfort the broken-hearted. . .

    And when it is said to them Make obeisance to the Beneficent God, they say And what is the God of beneficence Shall we make obeisance to what you bid us And it adds to their aversion.


    I just think it's destiny. God looks out for good people. Jerome is a good citizen, and he's a benevolent person in the community. It's destiny for him to start in Detroit and end in Detroit.




    A man kind of dictates the rules about how he is to be treated, and for 30 years, people do what he says. I can't think of another public figure -- and he IS a public figure -- who has been allowed to do that. He's not a monster, but he's not a god. He's a man.


    In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist is not meant to be a judge of his characters and what they say his only job is to be an impartial witness. I heard two Russians in a muddled conversation about pessimism, a conversation that solved nothing all I am bound to do is reproduce that conversation exactly as I heard it. Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language.

    And if they intend to deceive you-- then surely Allah is sufficient for you He it is Who strengthened you with His help and with the believers And united their hearts had you spent all that is in the earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Allah united them surely He is Mighty, Wise.

    Thank God. But that's our problem. Most of the kids on defense are also our offensive players. We'd like to eliminate that if possible as much as we can.

    You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

    But how can you disbelieve while it is you to whom the communications of Allah are recited, and among you is His Apostle And whoever holds fast to Allah, he indeed is guided to the right path.


    O you who believe shall I lead you to a merchandise which may deliver you from a painful chastisement You shall believe in Allah and H, is Apostle, and struggle hard in Allah's way with your property and your lives that is better for you, did you but know He will forgive you your faults and cause you to enter into gardens, beneath which rivers flow, and goodly dwellings in gardens of perpetuity that is the mighty achievement And yet another (blessing) that you love help from Allah and a victory near at hand and give good news to the believers.




    You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.



    And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles.

    They only ask leave of you who do not believe in Allah and the latter day and their hearts are in doubt, so in their doubt do they waver.

    Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead) And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

    Allah knows what every female bears, and that of which the wombs fall short of completion and that in which they increase and there is a measure with Him of everything.


    You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.


    After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

    O Prophet be careful of (your duty to) Allah and do not comply with (the wishes of) the unbelievers and the hypocrites surely Allah is Knowing, Wise And follow what is revealed to you from your Lord surely Allah is Aware of what you do And rely on Allah and Allah is sufficient for a Protector.





    No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.


    This is the time to speak and sing the Praise and the Glory of God, which brings the merit of millions of cleansing and purifying baths. The tongue which chants these Praises is worthy there is no charity equal to this.


    NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. .... Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

    I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.


    It is not allowed to you to take women afterwards, nor that you should change them for other wives, though their beauty be pleasing to you, except what your right hand possesses and Allah is Watchful over all things.




    The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

    God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.


    Watching the sun rise over the ocean is making it easy for me to wake up and get out of bed. I'm not jumping up to take a shower or go to work. I'm jumping up to greet the majesty of the day, of God, of me. The majesty reminds me that God's in his heaven ... and so am I. And, heaven is a lovely place to start the day, a lovely place to live.



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