Quotes Tagged "steadfastness"

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

We are winning,” said the graffiti in Seattle, not “We have won.” It’s a way of telling in which you can feel successful without feeling smug, in which you can feel challenged without feeling defeated.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice