Jennah Quotes & Sayings

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. — Madeleine Peyroux

When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink ... — Charles Dickens

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah. — Yasmin Mogahed

To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever. — Yasmin Mogahed

It's him. He is the reason that I have come alive. I take my time, leaning closer to him, letting him see in my eyes what I can't say out loud. He makes me want to give instead of take, a first for me. — Nicole Reed

In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be. — Yasmin Mogahed

So that's what she was doing with the sports bag. Emptying the flat of pills so that I wouldn't kill myself. I want to laugh. You're so stupid, I want to say. There are kitchen knives, aren't there? Windows that open? Glasses which can be broken? Do you honestly think that by taking away all the pills you will somehow stop me from killing myself?
Then another thought occurs to me. That in her hurt, angry state, Jennah still had the presence of mind to do this. Don't kill yourself, she says to me through the empty drawer. Don't kill yourself over me. — Tabitha Suzuma

This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar — Yasmin Mogahed

My heart thumps as if it's ready to burst. Please let him come. Oh, please let him come." " I just have to hope. But I do hope, I hope so much it hurts." "He must be here. He must." - Jennah — Tabitha Suzuma

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living — Jules Henri Poincare

Love can only take place where a relationship is free from idolatry and a person recognizes God as the source of everything. The moment we look to someone to be the source of supplying our happiness or comfort, we put them in the place of God. At that point, loving that person with the love of God becomes an impossibility. Your theological foundation is crucial to your growth in love. What you believe about God dictates your perspective and attitudes toward people and circumstances in life. — Norm Wakefield

You're so cute with your hair all gelled and spiky. You know, all I'm going to be thinking when you're on that stage is that I get to take you home with me tonight. - Jennah — Tabitha Suzuma

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits. — Michel De Montaigne

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, ... And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain? — John Milton

I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that. — Jack Valenti

Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us. — Yasmin Mogahed

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. — Stanley Kunitz