Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johannes Kepler

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

Johannes Kepler

I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

James Joyce

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

James Russell Lowell

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

James Russell Lowell

God'll send the bill to you.

James Russell Lowell

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

Friedrich Schiller

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Friedrich Schiller

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Luis Bunuel

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Ludwig van Beethoven

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

Lucan

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

Lord Byron

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord Acton

The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

Jim Wallis

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

M. Scott Peck

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

M. Scott Peck

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

M. Scott Peck

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

M. Scott Peck

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

Luis Palau

You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'

Louise Fresco

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

John Boorman

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

John Arbuthnot

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.

Paul Davies

You can't teach it in science class. God has never been a part of science.

The True Guru is my friend; He unites me with my all-wise, all-knowing Lord God

Margaret Turnbull

These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

Sophie Monk

All my success seems to come straight away, and it's not until later that I get to appreciate it. Like with 'Popstars,' I won the competition, and now I look back and go, 'God, I was lucky to have number-one singles and albums.'

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. (2 Samuel 22:3)

The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless

Adam Maida

A legend has been called home to God,