Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

C. S. Lewis

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

Carrie Newcomer

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

Aron Ralston

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Bill Vaughan

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Bill Blass

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Virginia White

Most of them just come out of the goodness of their heart.

Noel Fisher

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

Marianne Severson

He made it, I mean, thank goodness. He made it out just in time.

Bill Johnson

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

C. S. Lewis

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Benjamin Franklin

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Boethius

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Richard Jefferies

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Mark McKinnon

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

E. Helm

He wanted better for myself and my sister. He didn't want me to have to endure the strenuous work.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who has a why can endure any how

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.