Top 201 Koran Quotes & Sayings

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

I study the Koran intensively, but I also study other religions, too. But it is in the Koran that the prophets are closest to me - there and in the mosque when I go to pray.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'.

My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don't subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath.

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.'

So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

Software will never replace the Koran.

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.

In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.

The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day-this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day's work, I can read a few verses.

The god of Islam tells his people, "Beat your wife. Go kill infidels. Go Kill Christians and Jews." This is in the Koran; it has been for 1400 years. Their god tells them to kill everybody who doesn't believe in the god of the Koran.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.