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Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

— Leila Aboulela

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She had not been in a real home for a long time.

The Translator (1999)

I find myself excited about reading African historical fiction more than other genres because it feels to me that this is actually new and exciting.

Interview (2023)

Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise.

River Spirit (2023)

One mother could look after twelve children and decades later these twelve adults would fidget and struggle to look after that one mother.

Bird Summons (2019)

The blow, inevitable in itself, comes straight from the source without any intermediaries.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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