Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein IRead
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the hope for unity and coexistence among followers of the three great monotheistic religions in a peaceful life.
King Hussein I expresses a powerful vision of harmony among the diverse descendants of Abraham, advocating for a future where people are able to live together in their shared historical birthplace, free from fear and need. The essence of the message underscores the importance of peace and mutual respect, transcending religious and cultural differences to create a better world for all.
Themes
PeaceUnityCoexistenceMonotheismHarmony
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech at a peace rally to emphasize the need for unity among different faiths.
More from King Hussein I
All quotes →I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
King Hussein IRead
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
King Hussein IRead
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
King Hussein IRead
Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
King Hussein IRead
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
King Hussein IRead
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