Geezus Butlers Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the term "holy war" originates not with Islam but with the Christian Crusaders who first used it to give theological legitimacy to what was in reality a battle for land and trade routes. "Holy war" was not a term used by Muslim conquerors, and it is in no way a proper definition of the word jihad. There are a host of words in Arabic that can be definitively translated as "war"; jihad is not one of them. The word jihad literally means "a struggle," "a striving," or "a great effort." In its primary religious connotation (sometimes referred to as "the greater jihad"), it means the struggle of the soul to overcome the sinful obstacles that keep a person from God. This is why the word jihad is nearly always followed in the Quran by the phrase "in the way of God. — Reza Aslan

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. — Rita Coolidge

I reached out and wrapped both my arms around one of John's. "Promise me we'll never be like them, okay?" I asked, with a shudder, nodding at Seth and Farah. "Calling each other babe in that annoying way?"
"We could never be like those two," John said, leading me away after giving Seth one last stony-eyed glare. — Meg Cabot

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. — Ovid

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids. — Joanna Noelle Levesque

Everyone disappears, just at a different speed. — M. Ocean

We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves. — Christiana Figueres

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. — Seneca The Younger

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. — Rumi