Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

• God
• Soul

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Dream
  • Team

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Robot

• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Deal

• I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Talent

• I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • People

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • World
  • Lost
  • Imagination

• 'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Work

• We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Good

• 'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Women
  • She

• It's the same old theme Since nineteen-sixteen In your head, in your head, they are fighting With their tanks, and their bombs And their bombs, and their guns In your head, in your head they are crying In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie What's in your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Fighting
  • Crying

• What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

  

  Madeleine Bunting
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Words

• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • America

• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Different
  • Money

• We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Soul