Koran Quotes

“Haste is of the Devil.”

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”

“I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.”

“Make haste slowly.”

“Haste makes waste.”

“Haste denies all acts their dignity.”

“As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.”

“Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God: thou hast as directly opposed, and striven against, and resisted Him, as ever man did oppose, and resist, and strive with another man, and this thou hast done in the whole course of thy life: certainly there is more in this to humble a man than anything that can be spoken to shew him the evil of sin.”

“Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.”

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”