Muhammad Quotes

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

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 try to act out of faith.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

I don't question God.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

O you who believe! Obey God, the Prophet, and those who have authority among you.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

For believing Muslims, legitimate authority comes from God alone, and the ruler derives his power not from the people, nor yet from his ancestors, but from God and the holy law.

If I believe authority is raised by God - I understand I don't understand all things. And what those purposes are. He's a sovereign God.

Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.