Mohammad

“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“Claims for the
occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on
a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to cover
the character of unique events, but the refusal to contemplate
the possibility of revelatory disclosures of an unprecedented
kind would be an unacceptable limitation, imposed arbitrarily
on the horizons of religious thought.”
― John Polkinghorne

“تو ای دوستدار علی، تو ای دوستدار فاطمه، و تو ای دوستدار حسنین؛ فکر مکن که دوستی تو نسبت به آنها به این است که چیزی نذرشان کنی! مثلا سفره نذرشان کنی، چلچراغ نذرشان کنی... این دوستی آنها نیست. آنها اهل این حرفها نیستند تا دوستیشان به این چیزها باشد. دوستی تو به آنها در کجا نمودار می‌شود؟ فقط یک جا، و آن رفتار تو، عقیده تو، اندیشه تو، فکر تو و عمل توست. هر قدر عقیده و اندیشه و عملت به اینها نزدیکتر باشد نشانه آن است که دوستی راستین صحیح آنها در تو ریشه دار تر است. محبت اهل بیت و ولایت آنها بازده و ثمره‌ای جز اطاعت بیشتر خدا و پرهیز بیشتر از معصیت خدا ندارد.”
― Sayyid Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, ولایت، رهبری، روحانیت

“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos