“Then in a moment, in that vast space of rocks and sky and scorching sun, I understood that he had not meant religious faith, not exactly. He was not urging me to become a Muslim or to believe in one… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love.… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
“And then, as slowly as the light fades on a calm winter evening, something went out of our relationship. I say that selfishly. Perhaps I started to look for something which had never been there in the first place: passion, romance. I aresay that as I entered my forties I had a sense that somehow life was going past me.… — Paul Torday Copy Share
“Images of people in the Middle East dressing like Westerners, spending like Westerners, that is what the voters watching TV here at home want to see. That is a visible sign that we really are winning the war of ideas—the struggle between consumption and economic growth, and religious tradition and economic stagnation. I thought, why are those children coming onto… — Paul Torday Copy Share
“He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel… — Paul Torday Copy Share
“In this country faith is absolute and universal. The choice, if there is a choice, is made at birth. Everyone believes. For these people, God is a near neighbour. I thought of Sundays at home when I was a child, buttoned up in an uncomfortable tweed jacket and forced to go to Sunday communion. I remember mouthing the hymns without… — Paul Torday Copy Share
“I am in another world, a world where faith and prayer are instinctive and universal, where not to pray, not to be able to… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
