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.

Anton LaVey

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

William Wordsworth

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Rob Bell

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Richard Rohr

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Samuel Rutherford

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

Samuel Rutherford

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

William Cowper

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Roseanne Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Woody Allen

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.