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.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Sarah Hale

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

Andy Stanley

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Anne Frank

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Kim Gandy

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Julia Margaret Cameron

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Kate DiCamillo

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.