Ishmael Quotes

• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

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  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus   Father   Islamic  

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• five severed fingers do not make a hand

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  Daniel Quinn

  Hands   Gorillas   Ishmael  

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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• If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

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  Daniel Quinn

  Confused   Ishmael   Ifs  

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!

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  John Bytheway

  Daughter   Wife   Ishmael  

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• David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

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  Ishmael Reed

  People   Criticism   Reeds  

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

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  Salman Rushdie

  Ahab   Captains   Ishmael  

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

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  Alexander Weinstein

  Challenges   Narrative   Reeds  

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

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  Watchman Nee

  Prayer   Children   Enemy  

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.665, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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