Fethullah Gulen Quotes

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

The President is the Theologian in Chief.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

Is there a bigger hypocrite than Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the CEO of 'Lords Bank?'

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.