Said Nursi Quotes

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

If Jesus is not enough to motivate you to godly living, you don't know Jesus.

It's my job to continue on this journey with the goal of becoming the best me I can and to embody the love Christ has for me, for I answer to Him and Him alone.

I pretty much just train... and go to church on Sundays.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.