Nadia Yassir Quotes

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so. ~ Nadia Boulanger

I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen. ~ Nadia Giosia

I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. ~ Nadia Ali

I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Belief is going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm responsible for what they hear  -  and hearing the gospel, the good news about who God is, slowly forms us over time. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I knew from the moment I met you that we would end up here. I didn't know how, but I was determined. Now it's time for you to realize what I've know all along"
" Really? And what's that?"
" That despite our differencies and all the obstacles we have before us, there couldn't be two people in the world more perfect for each other. ~ Nadia Aidan

This face. I could love this face. And everything about the guy that goes along with it." - Nadia, Chapter Eight ~ Ann Aguirre

This is our God. Not a distant judge nor a sadist, but a God who weeps. A God who suffers, not only for us, but with us. Nowhere is the presence of God amidst suffering more salient than on the cross. Therefore what can I do but confess that this is not a God who causes suffering. This is a God who bears suffering. I need to believe that God does not initiate suffering; God transforms it. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too. ~ Nadia Bjorlin

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ~ Nadia Boulanger

Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat. ~ Nadia Giosia

I often think that the effort we put into trying to pretend something about us is true  -  that we are less than we are or more than we are or that one aspect of ourselves is the whole story  -  is based in a fear of  being really known, of  being truly seen, as we actually are. Perhaps we each have a wound, a vulnerable place that we have to protect in order to survive. And yet sometimes we overcompensate so much for the things we are trying to hide that no one ever suspects the truth…and then we are left in the true aloneness of never really being known. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Showbiz can be cruel. ~ Nadia Bjorlin

Now bound by the sudden rush of emotion that reverberates through me as I remain intent on awakening Nadia, I push my fingertips upward over her neck as if pushing a coin from the edge of heaven, waiting to catch where it falls as if I were in all places at once. I then gently attack her pressure points from every side, leaving Nadia completely vulnerable to my wanting her. Nadia now hastens my love as I reveal to her my gentle ways that excite and nourish her every capacity in all mind, body, and soul. I take to her exaggerated lines that press firmly against me with a wet friction that builds between the cold and the heat, tasting and smelling her sweet body that warms my heart to its core. I allow my mind to speak through my gaze as I look into Nadia's rich brunneous eyes where hints of sable shimmer across the reflection that mirrors her heart. ~ Luccini Shurod

The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ~ Nadia Giosia

I was pretty sure everyone was praying for different things. I wondered how Allah would sort it all out. ~ Nadia Hashimi

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away. ~ Nadia Hashimi

It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on, ~ Nadia Hashimi

everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home,
but at the end..
you will be coming home,
because..
that's where you belong to.. ~ Nadia Nazmir

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment. ~ Nadia Comaneci

There were things they said out loud to each other, things they whispered with a twitch of the face, and things that were stoically hidden. ~ Nadia Hashimi

The beauty of our sky is really just a nice way for the earth to protect us from the terror of what's so vast and unknowable beyond. The boundlessness of the universe is disturbing when you think about it. It's too big and we're too small. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

That was her escape, I realized. Where her body couldn't take her, her mind went. ~ Nadia Hashimi

A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true ... , ~ Nadia Buari

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. ~ Nadia Giosia

Jesus says, "Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me." He says, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first," and infuriating things like "if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it." And every single time I die to something - my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way - every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Thus when Hiroko came up and said, "Nadia, this crescent wrench is absolutely frozen in this position," Nadia sang to her, "That's the only thing I'm thinking of - baby!" and took the crescent wrench and slammed it against a table like a hammer, and twiddled the dial to show Hiroko it was unstuck, and laughed at her expression. "The engineer's solution," she explained, and went humming into the lock, thinking how funny Hiroko was, a woman who held their whole ecosystem in her head, but couldn't hammer a nail straight. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category ... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you. ~ Nadia Lee

The hell with naseeb. Naseeb is what people blame for every thing they can't fix. ~ Nadia Hashimi

Getting sober never felt like I had pulled myself up by my own spiritual bootstraps. It felt instead like I was on one path toward destruction and God pulled me off of it by the scruff of my collar, me hopelessly kicking and flailing and saying, 'Screw you. I'll take the destruction please.' God looked at tiny, little red-faced me and said, 'that's adorable,' and then plunked me down on an entirely different path. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children ~ Nadia Hashimi

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. ~ Nadia Comaneci

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it. ~ Nadia Boulanger

Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing. ~ Nadia Hashimi

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends. ~ Nadia Comaneci

If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I need a place to confess that I don't have everything figured out. Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes; it is a faith of the guilty. There is no "right" or perfect way to be. We learn from our mistakes; we extend grace to others and ourselves. In the same way a lover who loves your body allows you to have grace for it, so is grace the antithesis of rejection. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all. ~ Nadia Hashimi