Louis Farrakhan Quotes

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic.

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?

I'm a very religious person.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

During the rests - pray.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

I study the Koran intensively, but I also study other religions, too. But it is in the Koran that the prophets are closest to me - there and in the mosque when I go to pray.

I'm not a practising Muslim.

Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.