Clergyman's

“You know what—gyms make the largest chunk of their profit from clients who pay their monthly dues on auto-pay but never bother to show up and use the gym. The DVD-rental companies make a good chunk of their profits from late fees; the credit-card companies make a fortune on sundry fines and penalties; the airlines’ margins are highest on ticket changes and cancellations… So, the key to running a successful business in America is to sign up a customer and pray he’ll somehow screw up…”
— Ali Sheikh

“I remembered the malangs of Shah Jamal, the dirty, shirtless renouncers with ratty beards and dreads and bare chests covered in necklaces of prayer beads, throwing around their arms in Charlie Manson dances and whipping out their old ID cards to say look, I used to be someone and now I’m no one, I’m so lost in Allah that I’ve thrown away the whole world. Would that qualify them as Sufis? I didin’t know how to measure it. Whether the malangs were Sufi saints or just drugged-out bums didn’t really matter. The lesson I took from them was that you’re never disqualified from loving Allah, never. And I could see again that what I went through was nothing new, not even anything special in the history of Islam, not a clashing of East and West; it was always there. And that made me feel more Muslim than ever, because fuck it all, CNN, this is Islam too.”
— Michael Muhammad Knight

“When you love someone, you can’t help but pray for them.”
— Elizabeth George