26 Quotes by Master Nursi

The world is also a tillage; sow and reap your crop, and preserve it. Throw away the chaff, and give it no importance

The world is a guest house. Man is to remain there only for a short time and is charged in this brief life with gathering all the supplied necessary for eternal life

Nature resembles a printing-press, not the printer. It is an embroidery, not the Embroiderer. It is passive, not active. It is a pattern, not a source. It is an order, and not the Orderer. It is a law, not a power. It is a code of laws proceeding from a will, not an external reality.

All things act in the name of Almighty God, for minute things like seeds and grains bear huge trees on their heads; they raise loads like mountains. That means all trees say: “In the Name of God,” fill their hands from the treasury of mercy, and offer them to us.

Trust in God! Laugh in misfortune’s face; it too will laugh. As it laughs, it will diminish; it will be changed and transformed.

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful. The mirror that shows the virtues of beauty becomes beautiful. Just as whatever is done to the mirror by such beauty is good and beautiful, whatever befalls life too, in respect of reality, is good.

Politics that revolves around benefit is savagery.

Were you created only for this world that youspend all your time on it?

Praise be to God for every state other than unbelief and misguidance.