Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

An enemy, waging war in a manner violative of the usage of civilized nations, has invaded our country. With presumptuous reliance on superior numbers, he has declared his purpose to reduce us to submission.... Recent disaster has spread gloom over the land, and sorrow sits at the hearthstones of our countrymen; but a people conscious of rectitude and faithfully relying on their Father in Heaven may be cast down, but cannot be dismayed.

War is far more spectacular than peace. Peace, on the other hand, requires patience, discretion and determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..