Rumi Quotes

… a walking day of judgment

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

There is no sin but ignorance.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

God will not forgive us if we fail.