46 quotes found
“God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.”
“The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.”
“Some people have a heart to do evil and they dont care if youre Muslim or Christian.”
“Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.”
“America isnt perfect but theres not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”
“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”
“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how luck...”
“I thought, Dad.Could I go to Vietnam for you?Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of your heart and soul left behind. If ...”
“The only thing I knew for sure is I hadnt slept in ten years. Not really. Id been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I still cant find words to des...”
“As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, youre all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else dont really matter.”
“The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'Youre flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.”
“I said, Je parle franais. Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point is, I dont really speak French, but its a useful phrase for confusing people you dont wi...”
“The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. Its an amazing, beautifu...”
“Id see the arrow. Id think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.”
“People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when youre alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry about ...”
“All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequencesand a group of intelligent ...”
“I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didnt use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. Thats what prisoners do on walls. They mark the days until t...”
“Im not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadnt volunteered at an orphanage at least onceeven our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasionbut Ive also visited foreign ...”
“Its not that I had more important things to do or that I didnt want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successfulrather, its this horrible truth that life has t...”
“The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the dome on top of the mosque. It was beautiful, and surreal. In one inst...”
“Educators are in the news, too. Usually thats bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, youre probably going to jail.”
“Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had ...”
“The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring...”
