Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Marcus Garvey

God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

John Shelby Spong

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

Richard Baxter

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Venerable Bede

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Saint Augustine

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

John Ortberg

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

John Calvin

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Anne Sexton

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.