The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu BakrRead
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Interpretation
Good deeds help protect us from life's challenges.
This quote emphasizes that performing good actions serves as a safeguard during difficult times. It suggests that by being kind and doing positive things for others, we build a buffer against the hardships and adversities we may face throughout our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire volunteers in a community service project.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
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