62 Quotes by Said Nursi

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

Do what you do only for God’s sake, start for God’s sake, work for God’s sake, and act within the sphere of God’s good approval.

A thing’s innate disposition does not lie.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.