Fethullah Gulen Quotes

There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

In our religion [Islam], there is a special place in the hereafter for those who participate in jihad.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it awful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.

...‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.