Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Woody Harrelson

A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

William McKinley

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

William James

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Zane Grey

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Zach Braff

If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Robert Reich

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

W. H. Auden

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Robert M. Pirsig

every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.