“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

 “To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. She creates what She wills. She bestows females on whom She wills and bestows males on whom She wills.
Or She couples them, males and females. And She makes barren whom She wills. Truly She is most Knowing, most Powerful.” - ash-Shuraa v. 49-50

 “If oppression and discrimination is lauded in an abusive language claiming to be God, then that makes God complicit with abuse. We must change that complacency with the language about the loving God.” - Prof Amina Wadud

 “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” ~ Bell Hooks