You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The
Everything started as nothing.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
Today I am even richer.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.