I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
Ameen RihaniIf I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
Ameen RihaniSelf-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
Ameen RihaniI renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
Ameen RihaniIn the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.
Ameen Rihani