Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

I've become a true Muslim. It's giving me happiness. It's made me become content as a man and helped me to grow. I've just got faith in it, and it has definitely helped me become the man I am today.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

I've never met a happy atheist.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

... life falls into place only with God.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

Deep down in my heart and what I've seen and what I've been around, there is nothing better than Islam.