Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But God knoweth, and ye know not.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

There is a noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.