Friendship pertains to one’s heart and sincerity. Those who think they can gain another’s friendship through deception and hypocrisy only deceive themselves. Even if some simple-minded people are taken in by their hypocrisy and flattery, they will not be able to sustain a long-lasting friendship. (ang.)
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Fethullah Gülen słynne cytaty
Those who wish to predict a nation’s future can do so accurately by analyzing the education and upbringing given to its young people. (ang.)
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What is right is beautiful in character, and the one who is right is sweet. Even if the right falls into the mud, it remains pure and upright. Even if the unjust is washed with musk, it remains impure and disgusting. (ang.)
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Art makes iron more valuable than gold, and copper more valuable than bronze. Thanks to art, the most worthless metals become more valuable than gold, silver, and diamonds. (ang.)
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Hearts are created as safes for keeping secrets. Intelligence is their lock; willpower is their key. No one can break into the safe and steal its valuables if the lock and key are not faulty. (ang.)
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Our women are the soundest foundation stone of our national honor and nobility. Their part in forming our long and glorious past is equal to that of the warriors who struggled with our enemies. (ang.)
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Fethullah Gülen Cytaty o ludziach
The media enlightens people and voices their sentiments and ideas. However, under oppressive rules, it is either a prisoner or a flatterer. (ang.)
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Morals are a set of noble principles that originate in high spirituality and govern human conduct. For this reason, people who neglect spirituality, and therefore lack spiritual values, cannot sustain conduct in accordance with these principles. (ang.)
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If we do not plant the seeds of love in the hearts of young people, whom we try to revive through science, knowledge, and modern culture, they will never attain perfection and free themselves completely from their carnal desires. (ang.)
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The republic needs people who fully identify with its principles. Its governing body should be dignified and wise, and its works should be fair and just. (ang.)
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Fethullah Gülen Cytaty o religii
Avoiding the positive sciences, fearing that they will lead to irreligion is naivety, and seeing them as contradictory with religion and faith and as vehicles for the rejection of religion is prejudice and ignorance. (ang.)
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Religion is an inexhaustible and blessed source that contains the principles of true civilization and lays its foundations. It is through religion that we are elevated so high in spirit and feelings that we make contact with metaphysical worlds, where we are "fed" to full satisfaction with all kinds of beauty, virtue, and goodness. (ang.)
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Sooner or later, those who do not recognize religion will come to despise such noble values as chastity, patriotism, and love of humanity. (ang.)
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Fethullah Gülen cytaty
A house that contains an honorable, chaste, and well-manered woman loyal to her home is a corner from Heaven. (ang.)
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In the way of love, even a slight, imagined inclination of the lover to someone or something other than the beloved means the end of love. Such an inclination is forbidden. Love continues as long as the lover sees the beloved in everything around him or her, and regards every beauty and perfection as the manifestation of the beloved. If this is not the case, love dies. (ang.)
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Those who do not seek or claim great prestige in their community sooner or later attain high ranks and are honored. Those who have a superiority complex are repudiated by their community and eventually become strangers in it. (ang.)
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Good morals and sound conscience, and good manners and virtues, are like a currency universally acceptable and which is not affected by changes in the values of other means of exchange. Those provided with such qualities are like merchants with the highest credit who can do business wherever they want. (ang.)
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When trees are pruned properly, they produce fruit and their growth improves. If they are not pruned properly, they shrivel and become stunted. Given this, should not each human being, possessing so many talents and abilities, be given at least as much care as a tree? (ang.)
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Since "real" life is possible only through knowledge, those who neglect learning and teaching are considered "dead" even though they are physically alive, for the most important purpose for our creation is to learn and to communicate what we have learned to others. (ang.)
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Government means justice and public order. We cannot speak of government where these do not exist. (ang.)
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National development only occurs when a nation’s people have the same goal. It cannot develop and progress, although it shows great activity, if some of its members say "black" and others say "white" for the same thing. (ang.)
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Nations are based on homes and individuals. If homes are good, the nation is good; if homes are bad, the nation is bad. If only those who want the best for the nation would first work to reform the homes! (ang.)
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Goodness, beauty, truthfulness, honesty, and being virtuous are the essence of the world. Whatever happens, the world will one day find this essence, for no one can prevent such an event. (ang.)
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Having faithful friends is just as important as satisfying the vital necessities of life. Being among a secure and peaceful circle of friends means finding safety against many hazards and dangers. (ang.)
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Worship means one’s thankfulness for the bounties with which he or she is endowed, such as life, consciousness, power of perception and faith, while negligence of the duty of worship is crude ingratitude. (ang.)
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Never deceive anyone, even if they deceive you. Fidelity and uprightness are two of the highest virtues. Even if following this advice brings you loss, which it sometimes does, always be faithful and upright. (ang.)
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Art is like a magical key that opens hidden treasures. Behind the doors it opens are ideas embodied and imaginings given substantial form. (ang.)
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Conscience, which has a central position in a person’s being and is the feeling that he or she is a human being, is a spiritual mechanism which wills, feels, perceives and is always open to eternity. (ang.)
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Preferring the interests of others over one’s own is high spirituality and magnanimity. Those who always do good without expecting any return will one day bow before God in wonder and admiration when, unexpectedly, they meet the accumulated results of their considerate nature and all the good they have done. (ang.)
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Parents should feed their children’s minds with knowledge and science before they become engaged in useless things. Souls devoid of truth and knowledge are fields in which all kinds of evil thoughts are grown and cultivated. What you sow is what you reap. (ang.)
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Return good for evil, and disregard discourteous treatment. An individual’s character is reflected in his or her behavior. Choose tolerance, and be magnanimous toward the ill-mannered. (ang.)
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Consultation is the first condition for obtaining good results. Paying attention to the opinions of friends and well-wishers is an important means of avoiding mistakes. (ang.)
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Just as dealers of gold and silver are experts of gold and silver, only dealers in words truly understand literary jewels. An animal will eat a flower on the ground and the inappreciative ones will step on it and go on their way. Only one who is truly human will smell a flower and place it in his or her lapel or hair.
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Fethullah Gülen: Cytaty po angielsku
"Fethullah Gulen: Powerful but reclusive Turkish cleric", 2014
"Gülen’s Condemnation Message of Terrorism", 2001
"Gülen’s Condemnation Message of Terrorism", 2001
"Fethullah Gulen: Powerful but reclusive Turkish cleric", 2014
"Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy", 2016
"Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy", 2016
"Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy", 2016
"Gülen’s Condemnation Message of Terrorism", 2001
"Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy", 2016