Famous Quotes

"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

Naguib Mahfouz on God

More quotes about God

• "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

  Abraham Lincoln on God

• "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

  Mother Teresa on God

• "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

  Albert Einstein on God

• "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

  Maya Angelou on God

• "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."

  Lawrence Welk on God

More quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

• "At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

• "We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

• "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."

• "I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

• "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."