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Desmond Tutu | You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. | 27 |
Voltaire | God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. | 58 |
Ronald Reagan | If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. | 101 |
John Wooden | Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. | 101 |
Lil Wayne | I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me. | 101 |
Prince | Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. | 101 |
Ben Carson | Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. | 101 |
Joel Osteen | I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. | 101 |
Will Smith | Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. | 101 |
Ann Voskamp | Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant. | 101 |
Ayrton Senna | If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear. | 101 |
Ben Stein | Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. | 101 |
Bill Bryson | I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. | 101 |
Bill Maher | Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' | 101 |
Brennan Manning | My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am. | 101 |
Carl Sandburg | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. | 101 |
Charles Stanley | Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. | 101 |
Chris Kyle | It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. | 101 |
David A. Bednar | Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. | 101 |
David Wilkerson | God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. | 101 |
Diane von Furstenberg | Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing. | 101 |
Dieter F. Uchtdorf | We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. | 101 |
DMX | I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me. | 101 |
Drew Barrymore | There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself. | 101 |
Edwin Louis Cole | God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive. | 101 |
Euclid | The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. | 101 |
Frances Farmer | But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. | 101 |
Freeman Dyson | Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. | 101 |
Gabby Douglas | You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy. | 101 |
Ibrahim Rugova | Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. | 101 |
Igor Stravinsky | The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. | 101 |
Ike Turner | I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie. | 101 |
Ivan Illich | There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. | 101 |
James Russell Lowell | Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. | 101 |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. | 101 |
John Calvin | God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. | 101 |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. | 101 |
Josephine Baker | God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. | 101 |
Karl Rahner | Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. | 101 |
Lex Luger | Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time. | 101 |
Lil' Kim | I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily. | 101 |
Madonna Ciccone | Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. | 101 |
Magic Johnson | God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her. | 101 |
Manny Pacquiao | The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. | 101 |
Martin Lawrence | I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. | 101 |
Mencius | Friends are the siblings God never gave us. | 101 |
Millard Fillmore | May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. | 101 |
Moses | Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. | 101 |
Nancy Reagan | To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. | 101 |
Nick Rahall | Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer. | 101 |
Norma McCorvey | Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. | 101 |
Olive Schreiner | Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. | 101 |
Olivia Hussey | I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God. | 101 |
Oral Roberts | God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person. | 101 |
Origen | For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. | 101 |
Orson Pratt | The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. | 101 |
Os Guinness | The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. | 101 |
Paul Dirac | God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. | 101 |
Philip Yancey | What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. | 101 |
Pope Benedict XVI | The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. | 101 |
R. Lee Ermey | It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. | 101 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | 101 |
Reza Aslan | Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time. | 101 |
Solange Knowles | Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. | 101 |
Sri Chinmoy | If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible. | 101 |
T. D. Jakes | We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. | 101 |
Thomas Becket | Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. | 101 |
Tom Waits | Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. | 101 |
Tony Dungy | Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond. | 101 |
Victoria Wood | I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill. | 101 |
Vincent Nichols | The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life. | 101 |
Walter Savage Landor | Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | 101 |
William Ames | From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. | 101 |
William Dunbar | To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. | 101 |
William Law | If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. | 101 |
Willie Aames | I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. | 101 |
Aiden Wilson Tozer | In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. | 101 |
Amy Tan | God, life changes faster than you think. | 101 |
Athanasius | The Son of God became man so that we might become God. | 101 |
Benny Hinn | What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. | 101 |
Beth Moore | What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do. | 101 |
Bobby Darin | Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. | 101 |
Cheryl Hines | It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.' | 101 |
Corbin Bernsen | When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty. | 101 |
David Brainerd | I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. | 101 |
Donald Miller | One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that? | 101 |
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals. | 101 |
Eugene H. Peterson | I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything. | 101 |
Gene Robinson | Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing. | 101 |
Gregg Allman | I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God. | 101 |
Guy Oseary | Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. | 101 |
Hayden Panettiere | You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there. | 101 |
Jacques Cartier | I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. | 101 |
James Altucher | Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. | 101 |
James Brown | I just thank God for all of the blessings. | 101 |
Javier Bardem | Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose. | 101 |
Jay Leno | If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. | 101 |
Jim Elliot | God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. | 101 |
John Clayton | Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. | 101 |
John Tyler | Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. | 101 |
John Wycliffe | Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world. | 101 |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. | 101 |
Josie Loren | God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them. | 101 |
Lauren Graham | All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100! | 101 |
Lionel Hampton | Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. | 101 |
Lucy Hale | The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.' | 101 |
Luke Scott | We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. | 101 |
Monica Johnson | Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer. | 101 |
Nicolas Malebranche | We are made to know and love God. | 101 |
Nigel Cole | Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'. | 101 |
Salmon P. Chase | And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. | 101 |
Sharon Gless | I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow. | 101 |
Sherri Shepherd | I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness. | 101 |
Sonam Kapoor | I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it. | 101 |
Adam DeVine | What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.' | 101 |
Allyson Felix | The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. | 101 |
Andrew Greeley | Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. | 101 |
Ashton Shepherd | I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God. | 101 |
Barbara Mandrell | By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. | 101 |
Betty Ford | It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late. | 101 |
Carry Nation | I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. | 101 |
Chantal Sutherland | So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way. | 101 |
Charles Morgan | There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. | 101 |
Donald Driver | God has blessed me to be where I'm at today. All the trials and tribulations I faced throughout my career and life. Look at where I'm at now, I'm the all-time Packers leading receiver of that franchise. That tells you a lot. | 101 |
Ernest Rutherford | Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. | 101 |
Franz Werfel | Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. | 101 |
Gloria Trevi | Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. | 101 |
Jan Karon | This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege. | 101 |
John Piper | Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. | 101 |
Joseph Butler | God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. | 101 |
Luke Ford | The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus. | 101 |
Moses Mendelssohn | A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present. | 101 |
Neal A. Maxwell | God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability. | 101 |
Richard Dooling | The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. | 101 |
Roger Williams | No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. | 101 |
Thomas Goodwin | We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. | 101 |
Adam Clarke | If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants. | 101 |
Alberta Hunter | Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself. | 101 |
Alija Izetbegovic | I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail. | 101 |
Andrae Crouch | I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing. | 101 |
Cardinal Richelieu | War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. | 101 |
Charles A. Beard | All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. | 101 |
Christopher Love | Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. | 101 |
Cote de Pablo | I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that. | 101 |
George Balanchine | God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. | 101 |
Gloria Gaither | Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment. | 101 |
Harold E. Hughes | I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself. | 101 |
Monica Denise Brown | I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me. | 101 |
Radhanath Swami | The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings. | 101 |
Solomon Burke | The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out. | 101 |
Stockwell Day | As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. | 101 |
Thomas Sydenham | Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. | 101 |
Aaron Neville | Every morning I wake up and thank God. | 101 |
Alphonsus Liguori | Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. | 101 |
Andy Taylor | You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. | 101 |
Garrett Fort | God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. | 101 |
Gene Krupa | When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em. | 101 |
Jane Grey | I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. | 101 |
Jay Griffiths | Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. | 101 |
John Boyega | I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful. | 101 |
John the Apostle | If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. | 101 |
Lemn Sissay | My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them. | 101 |
Leslie Stephen | If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. | 101 |
Mary Daly | Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. | 101 |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. | 101 |
Mojo Nixon | I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. | 101 |
Thomas Brooks | God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. | 101 |
Thomas Hearns | I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from. | 101 |
Thomas Ken | Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! | 101 |
Basil Hume | The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. | 101 |
C. J. Mahaney | The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God. | 101 |
Dave Checketts | Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks. | 101 |
Jessica Hahn | I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend. | 101 |
Marguerite Duras | Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. | 101 |
Mohamed Al-Fayed | The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. | 101 |
Russell M. Nelson | A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. | 101 |
Richard Foster | Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God. | 101 |
Thomas R. Kelly | We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. | 101 |
Alvin Dark | Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. | 101 |
Anthea Turner | Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage. | 101 |
Archibald Alexander | But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. | 101 |
Cedric Hardwicke | I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. | 101 |
Charles L. Allen | When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. | 101 |
David Jeremiah | The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference. | 101 |
John Nelson Darby | The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. | 101 |
John Philpot Curran | The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. | 101 |
Matthew Scully | An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God. | 101 |
Alfred Jarry | God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. | 101 |
Alfred Korzybski | God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. | 101 |
Arthur Peacocke | God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. | 101 |
Jupiter Hammon | The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. | 101 |
Amanda Borden | Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. | 101 |
Arthur Young | God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. | 101 |
Jayson Williams | I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family. | 101 |
Julia Ward Howe | God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. | 101 |
John Jewel | But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. | 101 |
Jane Wagner | When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. | 101 |
Jud Wilhite | We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith. | 101 |
James Prescott Joule | After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. | 101 |
e. e. cummings | I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. | 102 |
Florence Nightingale | If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. | 102 |
Jesus Christ | Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. | 102 |
Nicki Minaj | People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here. | 102 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. | 102 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. | 102 |
Soren Kierkegaard | Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. | 102 |
Swami Vivekananda | You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. | 102 |
Walt Whitman | I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. | 102 |
Joel Osteen | Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. | 102 |
Mike Pence | Uh, do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them. The means that he used to do that, I can't say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth. | 102 |
Ravi Zacharias | When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. | 102 |
Abu Bakr | He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. | 102 |
Anaxagoras | Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. | 102 |
Anne Rice | I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. | 102 |
Bernie Siegel | God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. | 102 |
Bill McCartney | When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms. | 102 |
Brandy Norwood | I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything. | 102 |
Brennan Manning | Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. | 102 |
Dwight L. Moody | God never made a promise that was too good to be true. | 102 |
Edith Stein | In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. | 102 |
Edward Young | The course of Nature is the art of God. | 102 |
F. Sionil Jose | When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day. | 102 |
Feisal Abdul Rauf | The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. | 102 |
Gabby Douglas | My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.' | 102 |
Garth Brooks | Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. | 102 |
George Muller | If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers. | 102 |
Geronimo | I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. | 102 |
Hans Urs von Balthasar | The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. | 102 |
Henry B. Eyring | The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord. | 102 |
Isaac Barrow | That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. | 102 |
Jack Kevorkian | Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. | 102 |
Joan of Arc | I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. | 102 |
John Calvin | For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. | 102 |
Karl Barth | Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. | 102 |
Kelly Clarkson | God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. | 102 |
King James I | I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. | 102 |
King Solomon | Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. | 102 |
Lawrence Welk | Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. | 102 |
Lex Luger | I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride. | 102 |
Loretta Lynn | I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have. | 102 |
Lorraine Hansberry | Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. | 102 |
Malcolm Muggeridge | Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. | 102 |
Mary J. Blige | You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. | 102 |
Max Lucado | A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. | 102 |
Millard Fillmore | God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution. | 102 |
Myles Munroe | It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. | 102 |
N. T. Wright | The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. | 102 |
Nick Rahall | As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer. | 102 |
Olivier Messiaen | My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. | 102 |
Oswald Chambers | Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. | 102 |
Paul Ryan | Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. | 102 |
Ramakrishna | A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. | 102 |
Rick Warren | What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. | 102 |
Stevie Wonder | I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it. | 102 |
Tim Tebow | I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God. | 102 |
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two. | 102 |
William Allen White | Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. | 102 |
Ziggy Marley | My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people. | 102 |
Arthur Erickson | God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. | 102 |
Austin O'Malley | God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. | 102 |
Camille Pissarro | God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. | 102 |
David Brainerd | If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. | 102 |
Dionne Warwick | Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it. | 102 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. | 102 |
Francis Scott Key | The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. | 102 |
Frank Moore Colby | Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. | 102 |
Gloria Naylor | You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence. | 102 |
Hakeem Olajuwon | God comes first. Paradise is not cheap. | 102 |
James Weldon Johnson | Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. | 102 |
Leland Ryken | The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. | 102 |
Philip James Bailey | Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. | 102 |
Robin Roberts | My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' | 102 |
Sherri Shepherd | I love it when a woman hugs me. I love it when they say that I make them laugh because that means I'm doing what God called me to do. I love people. I love it when little old ladies come up and want to kiss me. It means so much to me that I get support and people know my heart. My fans know my heart and they get it. | 102 |
Terrence Howard | In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it. | 102 |
Tom Araya | I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. | 102 |
Tryon Edwards | One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. | 102 |
Walter Lang | Time was God's first creation. | 102 |
Whittaker Chambers | I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. | 102 |
Adam Hamilton | Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life. | 102 |
Barbara Mandrell | I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me. | 102 |
Carry Nation | I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air. | 102 |
Evelyn Underhill | There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. | 102 |
Fulton Oursler | In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. | 102 |
John Piper | Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. | 102 |
Jonathan Edwards | The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. | 102 |
Mariano Rivera | I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me. | 102 |
Sun Myung Moon | In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God. | 102 |
Janine di Giovanni | I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.' | 102 |
Johannes Tauler | God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own. | 102 |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. | 102 |
Konrad Adenauer | In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. | 102 |
Maureen Dowd | I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.' | 102 |
Michael W. Smith | But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me. | 102 |
Randy Neugebauer | The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. | 102 |
Alphonsus Liguori | Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. | 102 |
Jane Grey | I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day. | 102 |
Louis Agassiz | The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. | 102 |
Abraham Cahan | If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. | 102 |
Byron Nelson | My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken. | 102 |
Dave Thomas | In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. | 102 |
MC Hammer | Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us. | 102 |
Jupiter Hammon | There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever. | 102 |
John Ralston Saul | Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. | 102 |
Jud Wilhite | If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough. | 102 |
Benjamin Franklin | Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. | 103 |
Beyonce Knowles | For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me. | 103 |
Saint Augustine | Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. | 103 |
Iyanla Vanzant | All things are lessons that God would have us learn. | 103 |
Jane Goodall | My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. | 103 |
Johnny Cash | The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. | 103 |
Joyce Meyer | I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. | 103 |
Ravi Zacharias | Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. | 103 |
Saint Ignatius | What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do. | 103 |
Tennessee Williams | We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. | 103 |
Alvar Aalto | God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. | 103 |
Annie Besant | Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime. | 103 |
Arnold J. Toynbee | As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. | 103 |
Barbara Boxer | We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us. | 103 |
Bill Cosby | There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. | 103 |
Charles Stanley | If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word. | 103 |
Constantin Brancusi | Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. | 103 |
Corrie Ten Boom | Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. | 103 |
David A. Bednar | Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence. | 103 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer | A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. | 103 |
Dr. Dre | The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS. | 103 |
Edith Stein | As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. | 103 |
Ellen G. White | Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. | 103 |
Felix Mendelssohn | Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. | 103 |
Francois Rabelais | I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. | 103 |
Frederic Bastiat | Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. | 103 |
George Muller | Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need. | 103 |
Hans Christian Andersen | Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. | 103 |
Herodotus | Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. | 103 |
Iggy Pop | My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. | 103 |
Izaak Walton | God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. | 103 |
Jimmy Dean | God is bigger than people think. | 103 |
Joan of Arc | Act, and God will act. | 103 |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting. | 103 |
Karl Barth | Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. | 103 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. | 103 |
Lee Trevino | If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. | 103 |
Lenny Bruce | Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. | 103 |
Linda Evangelista | God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it. | 103 |
Linus Torvalds | My name is Linus, and I am your God. | 103 |
LL Cool J | I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that. | 103 |
Mitt Romney | Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. | 103 |
Moses | The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed. | 103 |
Patrick Henry | We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. | 103 |
Ray Lewis | Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies. | 103 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. | 103 |
Rick Warren | It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family. | 103 |
Robert Anton Wilson | Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. | 103 |
Rowan Williams | And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. | 103 |
Russell Brand | Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God. | 103 |
Saint Ambrose | Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection. | 103 |
Saint Patrick | If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me. | 103 |
Sergey Brin | Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. | 103 |
Shaquille O'Neal | Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect. | 103 |
Victoria Justice | If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call. | 103 |
William Law | This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. | 103 |
Amiri Baraka | God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. | 103 |
Brad Thor | We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world. | 103 |
Brian Celio | I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? | 103 |
David Brainerd | Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. | 103 |
Derrick Rose | As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come. | 103 |
Dhanush | Unfortunately, I can only act; I do not have the looks, but I am very happy with what God has given me. | 103 |
Eugene H. Peterson | If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything. | 103 |
Evander Holyfield | The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. | 103 |
Heywood Broun | Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. | 103 |
Jean Paul | God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. | 103 |
Joe Strummer | If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'. | 103 |
John Clayton | Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. | 103 |
John McCain | I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. | 103 |
Kate Atkinson | I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling. | 103 |
Luke Scott | I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan. | 103 |
William C. Bryant | The groves were God's first temples. | 103 |
William Tyndale | And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood. | 103 |
Adam Hamilton | As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. | 103 |
Alex Campbell | I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do. | 103 |
John Piper | God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. | 103 |
Ray Comfort | Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist. | 103 |
Sean M. Carroll | I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God. | 103 |
Alfred Stieglitz | Several people feel I have photographed God. May be. | 103 |
Beatrix Potter | Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. | 103 |
Mary Manin Morrissey | God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us. | 103 |
Michael Chang | I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through. | 103 |
Stockwell Day | Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. | 103 |
Alphonsus Liguori | Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. | 103 |
Dan Millman | Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. | 103 |
Jayne Mansfield | I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it. | 103 |
Joe Barton | Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. | 103 |
Jupiter Hammon | But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. | 103 |
John Barth | The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. | 103 |
Mother Teresa | We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. | 104 |
Anne Frank | The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. | 104 |
Elvis Presley | Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. | 104 |
Francis of Assisi | If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. | 104 |
Leo Buscaglia | Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. | 104 |
Soren Kierkegaard | God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. | 104 |
W. H. Auden | God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. | 104 |
Christopher McCandless | I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. | 104 |
Joel Osteen | When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. | 104 |
John Adams | Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. | 104 |
Meister Eckhart | To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. | 104 |
Mike Tyson | God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another. | 104 |
Steve Harvey | God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it. | 104 |
B. B. King | I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music. | 104 |
Billy Connolly | It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. | 104 |
Cat Stevens | I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. | 104 |
Charles Stanley | We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. | 104 |
Daniel Webster | The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. | 104 |
Edwin Louis Cole | God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter. | 104 |
Francesca Annis | Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. | 104 |
Francis Quarles | Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. | 104 |
George Muller | Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more. | 104 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. | 104 |
Harry Emerson Fosdick | God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. | 104 |
Henrik Ibsen | The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. | 104 |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. | 104 |
John Calvin | A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. | 104 |
John Wesley | Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. | 104 |
Karl Barth | Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. | 104 |
Magic Johnson | I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS. | 104 |
Mike Ditka | If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. | 104 |
Mitt Romney | The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. | 104 |
Orson Pratt | God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter. | 104 |
Oswald Chambers | We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. | 104 |
Patrick Henry | Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! | 104 |
Paul Cezanne | You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. | 104 |
Ram Dass | My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. | 104 |
Ramakrishna | One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. | 104 |
Rihanna | God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that. | 104 |
Robert Schumann | Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. | 104 |
Robert Winston | We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem. | 104 |
Rodney King | I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God. | 104 |
Roy H. Williams | In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music. | 104 |
Saint Francis de Sales | By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God. | 104 |
Saint Patrick | No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. | 104 |
Stendhal | God's only excuse is that he does not exist. | 104 |
Steve Carell | I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. | 104 |
Taraji P. Henson | Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free. | 104 |
Thomas Szasz | If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. | 104 |
Tim Tebow | I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God. | 104 |
Xenophanes | There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. | 104 |
J. C. Watts | I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it. | 104 |
Jean Rostand | One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. | 104 |
Lucy Larcom | Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. | 104 |
Ray Comfort | Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me. | 104 |
James Wolcott | Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. | 104 |
Mary Manin Morrissey | Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. | 104 |
Alphonsus Liguori | What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. | 104 |
Alan Watts | You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. | 105 |
Billy Graham | Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. | 105 |
Cesar Chavez | It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. | 105 |
George S. Patton | It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. | 105 |
Gottfried Leibniz | The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. | 105 |
Martin Luther | Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. | 105 |
Pope Francis | God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. | 105 |
Robert E. Lee | We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. | 105 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. | 105 |
Joyce Meyer | I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. | 105 |
Meister Eckhart | We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. | 105 |
Michelangelo | I live and love in God's peculiar light. | 105 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. | 105 |
R. Buckminster Fuller | God is a verb, not a noun. | 105 |
Ravi Zacharias | You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. | 105 |
Saint Ignatius | May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! | 105 |
Aeschylus | God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. | 105 |
Anne Lamott | You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. | 105 |
Barbara Ehrenreich | For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. | 105 |
Ben Shapiro | Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. | 105 |
Bill Maher | Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. | 105 |
Cat Stevens | This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general. | 105 |
Charles Stanley | To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. | 105 |
Edwin Louis Cole | Have faith in God; God has faith in you. | 105 |
Frederick William Faber | They always win who side with God. | 105 |
George Muller | It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off. | 105 |
Gordon B. Hinckley | Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. | 105 |
Haile Selassie | Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ. | 105 |
Hilaire Belloc | The grace of God is courtesy. | 105 |
Honore de Balzac | Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. | 105 |
James M. Barrie | God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. | 105 |
Jean Cocteau | I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. | 105 |
Joan of Arc | If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. | 105 |
Joan Rivers | If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor. | 105 |
Johann Sebastian Bach | The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. | 105 |
John Calvin | God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. | 105 |
John Wesley | God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. | 105 |
Marco Rubio | Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all. | 105 |
Marianne Williamson | As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. | 105 |
Martha Beck | The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them. | 105 |
Mikhail Bakunin | The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. | 105 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. | 105 |
Peter Marshall | God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. | 105 |
Pope Paul VI | The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. | 105 |
Rick Warren | You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. | 105 |
Robert Anton Wilson | Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul. | 105 |
Rowan Williams | The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. | 105 |
Saint Ambrose | A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. | 105 |
Saint Basil | Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. | 105 |
Sam Levenson | It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. | 105 |
Sean Combs | Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. | 105 |
Tina Turner | For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different. | 105 |
Wangari Maathai | Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. | 105 |
Wendell Berry | This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. | 105 |
William Penn | Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. | 105 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. | 105 |
James Dobson | God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election. | 105 |
Joss Whedon | I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. | 105 |
Peter Abelard | Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. | 105 |
Evelyn Underhill | Adoration is caring for God above all else. | 105 |
Mahalia Jackson | Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. | 105 |
Konrad Adenauer | A thick skin is a gift from God. | 105 |
Sri Aurobindo | Hidden nature is secret God. | 105 |
Junior Seau | I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much. | 105 |
Billy Graham | God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' | 106 |
Charles Darwin | I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. | 106 |
Galileo Galilei | I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | 106 |
John Muir | Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. | 106 |
John Stuart Mill | Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. | 106 |
Vincent Van Gogh | I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. | 106 |
Joel Osteen | I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. | 106 |
Marcus Garvey | God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. | 106 |
Meister Eckhart | You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. | 106 |
Sylvia Plath | I talk to God but the sky is empty. | 106 |
Annie Besant | The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. | 106 |
Arnold J. Toynbee | Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. | 106 |
Arthur Ashe | If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life. | 106 |
Charles Stanley | On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say. | 106 |
Elizabeth I | God forgive you, but I never can. | 106 |
Elizabeth Warren | Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. | 106 |
Ellen G. White | Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God. | 106 |
Garrison Keillor | Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. | 106 |
George MacDonald | Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. | 106 |
Haile Selassie | If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. | 106 |
Jack London | The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. | 106 |
Jack White | I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do. | 106 |
John Calvin | Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. | 106 |
Karen Armstrong | We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. | 106 |
Karl Barth | Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. | 106 |
Lauryn Hill | Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. | 106 |
Lily Tomlin | Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? | 106 |
Louis Farrakhan | Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. | 106 |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. | 106 |
Martha Graham | We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. | 106 |
Max Lucado | The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' | 106 |
Mignon McLaughlin | When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. | 106 |
Mikhail Bakunin | A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. | 106 |
Moses | You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. | 106 |
Ramakrishna | God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. | 106 |
Reba McEntire | Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened. | 106 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. | 106 |
Rick Perry | The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong. | 106 |
Rick Warren | Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. | 106 |
Stevie Wonder | God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done. | 106 |
T. D. Jakes | So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it. | 106 |
Thomas More | I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. | 106 |
Tim Tebow | Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God. | 106 |
William Cowper | God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. | 106 |
William Howard Taft | I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. | 106 |
Willie Nelson | I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? | 106 |
Joseph Prince | Laughter is God's blessing. | 106 |
Leo Rosten | Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less. | 106 |
Pearl Bailey | People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. | 106 |
Pope Shenouda III | The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God. | 106 |
William Lyon Phelps | God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. | 106 |
John Eldredge | Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do. | 106 |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. | 106 |
Martin Farquhar Tupper | God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. | 106 |
Radhanath Swami | When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God. | 106 |
Charles Duke | My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever. | 106 |
Jennie Finch | A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing. | 107 |
Bob Marley | If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now. | 107 |
Christopher Hitchens | Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. | 107 |
Elie Wiesel | Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. | 107 |
George W. Bush | The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. | 107 |
Pope John Paul II | Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. | 107 |
Rosa Parks | God has always given me the strength to say what is right. | 107 |
William Arthur Ward | God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' | 107 |
Adele | I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours. | 107 |
Meister Eckhart | God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. | 107 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. | 107 |
Abu Bakr | When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God. | 107 |
Adam Sandler | God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. | 107 |
Anthony Hopkins | We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. | 107 |
Baltasar Gracian | He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. | 107 |
Brigham Young | Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. | 107 |
Charles Stanley | Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. | 107 |
Dag Hammarskjold | God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. | 107 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer | God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. | 107 |
Edwin Louis Cole | Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. | 107 |
George Washington Carver | I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. | 107 |
Helen Hunt Jackson | Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. | 107 |
Igor Stravinsky | I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. | 107 |
Joan of Arc | I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. | 107 |
John Greenleaf Whittier | Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. | 107 |
Karl Barth | No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. | 107 |
Marco Rubio | We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has blessed us with, it is worth fighting for. | 107 |
Martin Scorsese | Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. | 107 |
Max Lucado | About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go. | 107 |
Michael J. Fox | I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. | 107 |
Moses | Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! | 107 |
Muhammad Iqbal | The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. | 107 |
Paul Tillich | I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. | 107 |
Rick Warren | If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available. | 107 |
Saint Patrick | If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me. | 107 |
Truman Capote | When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. | 107 |
Vin Diesel | I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God. | 107 |
William Jennings Bryan | The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. | 107 |
David Brainerd | We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. | 107 |
Julian Baggini | The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy. | 107 |
John Piper | Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. | 107 |
Ryan Sheckler | I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process. | 107 |
Alphonsus Liguori | Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him. | 107 |
Maya Angelou | The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. | 108 |
Socrates | Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | 108 |
Blaise Pascal | Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. | 108 |
Elie Wiesel | Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. | 108 |
John Lennon | I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. | 108 |
John Muir | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. | 108 |
Martin Luther | Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. | 108 |
Isak Dinesen | God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. | 108 |
Christopher McCandless | It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! | 108 |
D. H. Lawrence | There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. | 108 |
Joel Osteen | Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be. | 108 |
Lionel Messi | Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift. | 108 |
Mattie Stepanek | Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day. | 108 |
Meister Eckhart | God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. | 108 |
Ravi Zacharias | The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide. | 108 |
Rudyard Kipling | God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. | 108 |
Saint Ignatius | Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. | 108 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. | 108 |
Dorothy Day | It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. | 108 |
E. Stanley Jones | At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. | 108 |
Ellen G. White | God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience. | 108 |
Ernest Holmes | Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God. | 108 |
Francis Quarles | If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. | 108 |
Fred Allen | Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. | 108 |
Jerry Falwell | AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. | 108 |
Joan of Arc | Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. | 108 |
Jorge Luis Borges | To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. | 108 |
Lee Iacocca | Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. | 108 |
Louis Farrakhan | We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. | 108 |
Ramakrishna | Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. | 108 |
Rick Warren | The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. | 108 |
Robert Orben | Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. | 108 |
Saadi | He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. | 108 |
Simone Weil | It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. | 108 |
Ted Williams | God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own. | 108 |
Jules Renard | I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. | 108 |
Kanye West | I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. | 109 |
Muhammad Ali | The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. | 109 |
Elie Wiesel | Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. | 109 |
Erma Bombeck | When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. | 109 |
John Muir | Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. | 109 |
Louis XIV | Has God forgotten all I have done for Him. | 109 |
Thomas Merton | The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. | 109 |
Anton Chekhov | To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. | 109 |
Ben Carson | I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming? | 109 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. | 109 |
Jim Valvano | I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. | 109 |
Joel Osteen | Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts. | 109 |
Mattie Stepanek | I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard. | 109 |
Sai Baba | Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. | 109 |
Saint Ignatius | Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. | 109 |
Steve Harvey | You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift. | 109 |
Alfred Adler | God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. | 109 |
Ellen G. White | A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health. | 109 |
Emmeline Pankhurst | If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. | 109 |
George Clooney | There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. | 109 |
Hugh Jackman | Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street. | 109 |
John Calvin | However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. | 109 |
Margaret Fuller | Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. | 109 |
Max Lucado | God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. | 109 |
Ramakrishna | Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. | 109 |
Saint Francis de Sales | We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. | 109 |
Ted Nugent | Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. | 109 |
Xenophanes | God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. | 109 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. | 109 |
Mehmet Oz | As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. | 109 |
Kanye West | Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun. | 110 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. | 110 |
Epicurus | If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. | 110 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. | 110 |
Jesus Christ | For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. | 110 |
Malala Yousafzai | Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities. | 110 |
Thomas Paine | Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. | 110 |
Pele | I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.' | 110 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | God's finger touched him, and he slept. | 110 |
Christopher McCandless | I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! | 110 |
Dante Alighieri | Nature is the art of God. | 110 |
Henri Nouwen | Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. | 110 |
Joel Osteen | Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be. | 110 |
Zora Neale Hurston | Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. | 110 |
Aeschylus | He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. | 110 |
Arthur C. Clarke | It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. | 110 |
Ellen G. White | Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth. | 110 |
Gisele Bundchen | When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked. | 110 |
Joan Rivers | I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. | 110 |
Mikhail Bakunin | Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. | 110 |
Orson Pratt | Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. | 110 |
Ramakrishna | God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. | 110 |
Sonia Sotomayor | I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. | 110 |
Ted Cruz | When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.' | 110 |
Tertullian | Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money. | 110 |
Truman Capote | It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. | 110 |
Yehuda Berg | I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God. | 110 |
Alphonsus Liguori | Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you. | 110 |
Desmond Tutu | We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. | 111 |
Ellen DeGeneres | In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. | 111 |
Immanuel Kant | It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. | 111 |
Martin Luther | Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. | 111 |
Pope Francis | Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God. | 111 |
Saint Augustine | O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. | 111 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. | 111 |
Joyce Meyer | I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life. | 111 |
Steve Martin | What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. | 111 |
Alan Rickman | What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. | 111 |
Charles Stanley | The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. | 111 |
Christopher Nolan | For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. | 111 |
Douglas Coupland | Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. | 111 |
Ellen G. White | In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite. | 111 |
Joan Rivers | Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. | 111 |
Max Lucado | God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed. | 111 |
Rick Warren | God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' | 111 |
Simone Weil | Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. | 111 |
Wangari Maathai | I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. | 111 |
Alexander Hamilton | The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. | 112 |
C. S. Lewis | There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' | 112 |
Desmond Tutu | God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. | 112 |
Douglas MacArthur | Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. | 112 |
Jesus Christ | Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. | 112 |
Joseph Campbell | God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. | 112 |
Martin Luther | God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. | 112 |
Saint Augustine | God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. | 112 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. | 112 |
Swami Vivekananda | The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. | 112 |
Joel Osteen | I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it. | 112 |
Joyce Meyer | I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. | 112 |
Meister Eckhart | The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. | 112 |
Saint Ignatius | God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. | 112 |
Garrison Keillor | Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. | 112 |
Max Lucado | If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. | 112 |
Robert H. Schuller | Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. | 112 |
Aristotle | Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. | 113 |
Baruch Spinoza | God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. | 113 |
David Bowie | That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. | 113 |
Franz Kafka | God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. | 113 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. | 113 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. | 113 |
Thomas Paine | There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. | 113 |
Joel Osteen | I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. | 113 |
Joyce Meyer | As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh. | 113 |
Swami Sivananda | God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. | 113 |
Ezra Taft Benson | Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. | 113 |
Marquis de Sade | To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. | 113 |
Oswald Chambers | When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' | 113 |
Ramakrishna | If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. | 113 |
Robert Browning | If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. | 113 |
Saint Basil | To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. | 113 |
Aldous Huxley | God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. | 114 |
Desmond Tutu | But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. | 114 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. | 114 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. | 114 |
Kurt Vonnegut | People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. | 114 |
Martin Luther | All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. | 114 |
Saint Augustine | Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. | 114 |
Swami Vivekananda | The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. | 114 |
Herbert Hoover | We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. | 114 |
Joel Osteen | God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. | 114 |
Michelangelo | I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. | 114 |
Richard P. Feynman | Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. | 114 |
Charles Stanley | God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. | 114 |
Robert Browning | Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. | 114 |
Thomas S. Monson | The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day. | 114 |
Menander | Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. | 114 |
Kanye West | They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? | 115 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | If there is no God, everything is permitted. | 115 |
John Wooden | Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. | 115 |
Pope Francis | Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world. | 115 |
Susan B. Anthony | I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. | 115 |
Swami Vivekananda | Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. | 115 |
Chanakya | God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. | 115 |
Dante Alighieri | Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. | 115 |
Orson Welles | I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. | 115 |
William Shakespeare | God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. | 116 |
Baruch Spinoza | Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. | 116 |
Charles Spurgeon | We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. | 116 |
Jesus Christ | Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. | 116 |
Michael Jordan | When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. | 116 |
Tupac Shakur | It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. | 116 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Life is God's novel. Let him write it. | 116 |
Joel Osteen | I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are. | 116 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. | 116 |
Aeschylus | God always strives together with those who strive. | 116 |
Ellen G. White | The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. | 116 |
Neale Donald Walsch | God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. | 116 |
Alan Watts | Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. | 117 |
Billy Graham | God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. | 117 |
Desmond Tutu | Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? | 117 |
Emily Dickinson | They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. | 117 |
Frederick Douglass | One and God make a majority. | 117 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | To love someone means to see him as God intended him. | 117 |
Henry Ford | I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. | 117 |
Swami Vivekananda | As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. | 117 |
Thomas Paine | Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. | 117 |
Ben Carson | I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way. | 117 |
Stephen King | And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. | 117 |
Tennessee Williams | All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. | 117 |
Abu Bakr | There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. | 117 |
Ellen G. White | The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. | 117 |
Marco Rubio | We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. | 117 |
Bob Marley | God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can. | 118 |
Desmond Tutu | In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. | 118 |
Martin Luther | I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. | 118 |
Rabindranath Tagore | From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. | 118 |
Robert E. Lee | I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. | 118 |
Robert Kennedy | But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? | 118 |
Thomas Merton | We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. | 118 |
William Blake | Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. | 118 |
Michelangelo | Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. | 118 |
Heraclitus | To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. | 118 |
John Calvin | There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. | 118 |
Robert Browning | Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. | 118 |
Benny Hinn | God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. | 118 |
Marilyn Monroe | There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. | 119 |
Albert Camus | I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. | 119 |
Elon Musk | It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. | 119 |
Jesus Christ | Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world. | 119 |
Martin Luther | The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. | 119 |
William Blake | It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. | 119 |
Woodrow Wilson | In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. | 119 |
Jimmy Carter | There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed. | 119 |
George Whitefield | For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. | 119 |
C. S. Lewis | Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? | 120 |
Alan Watts | But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. | 120 |
Ayn Rand | God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. | 120 |
Billy Graham | The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' | 120 |
Charlie Chaplin | I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. | 120 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. | 120 |
Martin Luther | To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. | 120 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. | 120 |
Ansel Adams | Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. | 120 |
Joyce Meyer | As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word. | 120 |
Erich Fromm | In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. | 120 |
Thomas Jefferson | I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. | 121 |
Voltaire | All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God. | 121 |
Isaac Asimov | To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. | 121 |
Soren Kierkegaard | Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. | 121 |
Joel Osteen | It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt. | 121 |
Ambrose Bierce | War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. | 121 |
Tony Dungy | I've said all along that God is in control. | 121 |
William Shakespeare | Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. | 122 |
Billy Graham | Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. | 122 |
Blaise Pascal | It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. | 122 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. | 122 |
Stephen Hawking | Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. | 122 |
Thomas Aquinas | It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. | 122 |
Euripides | He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. | 122 |
Joyce Meyer | I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart. | 122 |
Lech Walesa | In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary. | 122 |
John F. Kennedy | Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. | 123 |
Christopher Hitchens | Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. | 123 |
Soren Kierkegaard | The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. | 123 |
Tupac Shakur | If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. | 123 |
Joyce Meyer | When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed! | 123 |
Emmeline Pankhurst | Trust in God - she will provide. | 123 |
C. S. Lewis | A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. | 124 |
Mother Teresa | Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. | 124 |
Alan Watts | In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. | 124 |
Billy Graham | God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are. | 124 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. | 124 |
Swami Vivekananda | God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. | 124 |
Joyce Meyer | Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life. | 124 |
Abraham Lincoln | Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. | 125 |
Ronald Reagan | Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. | 125 |
Billy Graham | Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. | 125 |
Epictetus | God has entrusted me with myself. | 125 |
Joel Osteen | Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. | 125 |
Joyce Meyer | God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions. | 125 |
Saint Basil | There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. | 125 |
Aldous Huxley | Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. | 126 |
Blaise Pascal | Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. | 126 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. | 126 |
Martin Luther | The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. | 126 |
Thomas Aquinas | God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. | 126 |
Joel Osteen | God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. | 126 |
Joyce Meyer | When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him. | 126 |
Meister Eckhart | Every creature is a word of God. | 126 |
Sophocles | God's dice always have a lucky roll. | 126 |
Ramakrishna | Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. | 126 |
Mother Teresa | There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. | 201 |
Voltaire | If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. | 201 |
Billy Graham | God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. | 201 |
Francis Bacon | Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. | 201 |
John Locke | The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. | 201 |
Thomas Paine | It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. | 201 |
Walt Whitman | I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. | 201 |
Joyce Meyer | God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow! | 201 |
Alan Watts | The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. | 202 |
Billy Graham | Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. | 202 |
Blaise Pascal | He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. | 202 |
Niccolo Machiavelli | God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. | 202 |
Oprah Winfrey | What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. | 202 |
Charles Stanley | When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you. | 202 |
George Washington | Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. | 203 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. | 203 |
Martin Luther | Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. | 203 |
Saint Augustine | God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. | 203 |
Joyce Meyer | Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God. | 203 |
Benjamin Franklin | God helps those who help themselves. | 204 |
Socrates | The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. | 204 |
John Lennon | And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. | 204 |
Joel Osteen | Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. | 204 |
Donald Trump | People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church. | 205 |
Alan Watts | The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. | 205 |
Blaise Pascal | It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. | 205 |
J. K. Rowling | It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. | 205 |
Joyce Meyer | Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents. | 205 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. | 205 |
Charles Stanley | God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. | 205 |
John Shelby Spong | I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. | 205 |
Barack Obama | We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. | 206 |
Voltaire | If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. | 206 |
Martin Luther | Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. | 206 |
Stephen Hawking | God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. | 206 |
Elbert Hubbard | God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. | 206 |
Herodotus | Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. | 206 |
C. S. Lewis | Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. | 207 |
Mother Teresa | I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. | 207 |
Francis Bacon | Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. | 207 |
Joel Osteen | I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody. | 207 |
Joyce Meyer | As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. | 207 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. | 208 |
C. S. Lewis | God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. | 209 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. | 209 |
Joyce Meyer | God's mercy is fresh and new every morning. | 209 |
H. L. Mencken | The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. | 210 |
Alan Watts | How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. | 210 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. | 211 |
Thomas Jefferson | Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. | 211 |
Bob Marley | I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. | 211 |
Joyce Meyer | We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross. | 211 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. | 212 |
Joyce Meyer | You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. | 213 |
Confucius | Heaven means to be one with God. | 214 |
Mahatma Gandhi | There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. | 214 |
Elie Wiesel | Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. | 214 |
Khalil Gibran | The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. | 216 |
Joyce Meyer | God never promised us a trouble-free life. | 216 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | God enters by a private door into every individual. | 217 |
Albert Einstein | When the solution is simple, God is answering. | 218 |
Oscar Wilde | I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. | 219 |
Edmund Burke | What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. | 219 |
William Shakespeare | O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! | 220 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. | 220 |
Joyce Meyer | God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm. | 220 |
Benjamin Franklin | Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. | 222 |
Ronald Reagan | We are never defeated unless we give up on God. | 223 |
Thomas Jefferson | It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. | 223 |
Mahatma Gandhi | It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. | 224 |
Ronald Reagan | Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. | 224 |
Bob Dylan | You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. | 224 |
Francis Bacon | God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. | 224 |
Victor Hugo | Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. | 224 |
Victor Hugo | When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. | 225 |
Aldous Huxley | There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. | 226 |
Charles Stanley | Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment. | 226 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. | 301 |
Albert Einstein | That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. | 304 |
Plato | The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. | 305 |
William Shakespeare | What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. | 305 |
Albert Einstein | God does not play dice. | 307 |
Elie Wiesel | After all, God is God because he remembers. | 308 |
Thomas Jefferson | Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. | 310 |
Mahatma Gandhi | There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. | 313 |
Mahatma Gandhi | I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. | 314 |
Mahatma Gandhi | God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. | 315 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The highest revelation is that God is in every man. | 316 |
Mahatma Gandhi | My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. | 317 |
Thomas Jefferson | The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. | 317 |
Saint Augustine | God is best known in not knowing him. | 318 |
Albert Einstein | Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. | 319 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. | 322 |
Albert Einstein | Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. | 323 |
Mahatma Gandhi | God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. | 325 |
Albert Einstein | I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. | 326 |
Abraham Lincoln | Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. | 404 |
Mark Twain | In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. | 406 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. | 407 |
Saint Augustine | I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. | 408 |
Abraham Lincoln | We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. | 410 |
William Shakespeare | Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. | 413 |
Joel Osteen | Only God can look at somebody's heart. | 417 |
Joel Osteen | My message is that God is a good God. | 418 |
Mark Twain | Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. | 512 |
Sophocles | Reason is God's crowning gift to man. | 606 |
Mahatma Gandhi | God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. | 609 |
Maya Angelou | While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. | 620 |
Albert Einstein | Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. | 711 |
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