God Quote by Mehmet Murat ildan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”

“With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!”

“Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.”

“If you close your wings, you cannot fly; you will fall. Your wings are your mind; wisdom means having giant wings, and giant wings will carry you to the highest heights!”

“Face the truth or the truth will face you!”

“When life, or rather reality, flashes a red light at you – and you don't have the power to change that reality – stop!”

“Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.”

“If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?”

“Dieu n'est pas utilitaire. Dieu est un cadeau de fête, un don gratuit, un lingot de platine, une image artistique, une friandise légère. Dieu est en plus. Il n'est ni pour ni contre. C'est du rabiot !”

“Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.”

“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that "God holds in his hand the beginning, middle, and end of all that is." Such nonrational, intuitive certainties of the divine base of all that is can be vouchsafed to our gaze even when it is turned toward the most insignificant-looking things, if only it is a gaze inspired by love. That, in the precise sense, is contemplation...”