Interview in Arabic with Al-Arabiya, 27/10/2013
“I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“To me, faith means treating the truth as true.”
Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 298
“Of course, the sovereign cure for worry is religious faith”
"The Gospel of Relaxation"
1910s, Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (1911)
Context: Worry means always and invariably inhibition of associations and loss of effective power. Of course, the sovereign cure for worry is religious faith; and this, of course, you also know. The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed, and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
“If you have no aim, you need not worry about the means.”
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
Speech in the Chamber (26 August 1924), quoted in Stephen A. Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976), p. 393.
“Islam does not mean mere faith, but faith plus deeds”
Nahj al-Balagha
Context: I define Islam for you in a way that nobody dared do it before me. Islam means obedience to Allah, obedience to Allah means having sincere faith in Him, such a faith means to believe in His Power, belief in His Power means recognizing and accepting His Majesty, acceptance of His Majesty means fulfilling the obligations laid down by Him and fulfillment of obligations means actions (Therefore, Islam does not mean mere faith, but faith plus deeds).
Part Thirteen “Magic Night”, Chapter ii “Shelter from the Storm”, Section 2 (p. 553)
(1987), BOOK THREE: OUT OF THE EMPTY QUARTER
