Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.

George Washington

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

George Santayana

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Henry M. Morris

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Christopher Cross

Serengeti Trek Vacation Bible School 05, where kids are wild about God!.

J. C. Ryle

To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

J. C. Ryle

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

J. C. Ryle

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

Isaac Watts

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...

C. S. Lewis

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Blaise Pascal

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

Blaise Pascal

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Bill Hybels

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

Bill Hybels

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Annie Proulx

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror...

Annie Proulx

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

Anne Bronte

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Andrew Carnegie

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Amos Oz

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Amos Oz

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

Ally Condie

Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.