Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Thomas Watson

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

Thomas Watson

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Richard Cecil

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

Richard Cecil

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Thomas Kinkade

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.

Thomas Brooks

Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].

Victor Hugo

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Allen Covert

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Tim Russell

I've never even seen Hickory Motor Speedway. We are going to try to get up there and test Thursday, and then participate in the open test on Friday. I am really serious about this race because if I run well, I believe it can be a boost for my career.

Robert Garrity

I've never even heard of this guy. Believe me, if his name came up, with all the things we did in that case, I would have remembered it. This is the biggest joke ever.

Liam Fox

I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,

Matt Williams

I've liked politics for a long time. I believe governments shouldn't be as large or powerful as they've become. Giving more power to the government is like giving teens whiskey and car keys.

Rob Davis

I've been around this thing a long time and nothing surprises me. Let me say this: You can't believe everything you read. None of us were on that boat. Do you feel sorry about the situation? Absolutely, because to a certain extent, we're all grouped together as professional athletes.

Maurice Strong

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Jim Tressel

I've always known this group has character, but you know, maybe it was revealed again, with them being down, you know, it not looking so wonderful. But they kept playing and they believe in each other.

David Kelley

I use the word innovation instead of creativity. People tend to think that creativity is something that you are born with, something God-given. I don't buy it. I believe that you can practice, practice, practice and become better. All you need is the confidence to believe you can.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

John Hay

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.

Francois Fenelon

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

Louis Aragon

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Lorenzo Snow

The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!

Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.