Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hart

There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.

Tim Oliver

He hugged me and said, 'I don't have any money to give you,' ... I said, 'Don't worry about that. Jesus loves you, and I love you.'

Richard Dawkins

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Richard Dawkins

In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

Richard Dawkins

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

Richelle Mead

It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

Richard Baxter

If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Truman Capote

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

Willie Aames

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

William Shatner

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

Rob Bell

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

Tori Amos

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

W. H. Auden

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

Saint Augustine

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

Yanni

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

Jose Canseco

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

Jon Anderson

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

William Howard Taft

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Robert M. Pirsig

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

Walter Martin

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right?

Wilhelm Stekel

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Walter F. Mondale

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

John Adams

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.