“I am in another world, a world where faith and prayer are instinctive and universal, where not to pray, not to be able to pray, is an affliction worse than blindness, where disconnection from God is worse than losing a… — 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
“And then, as slowly as the light fades on a calm winter evening, something went out of our relationship. I say that selfishly. Perhaps… — 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… — 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
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through — Paul Torday Copy Share
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis...… — 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,… — 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
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
“Harriet turned round, and we both saw a girl walking towards us. She was dark-skinned and thin, not veiled but dressed in a sitara,… — Paul Torday Copy Share
“For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.” — Paul Torday Copy Share
“Then in a moment, in that vast space of rocks and sky and scorching sun, I understood that he had not meant religious faith,… — Paul Torday Copy Share
