Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Pence

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

Levon Helm

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.

Neil MacGregor

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Niccolo Machiavelli

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Nhat Hanh

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Noah Feldman

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

Joey Gathright

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

Jodi Picoult

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

Christopher Hitchens

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Mike Reese

The vision is always to point one to God and to Christ our Savior and to give Him the glory for our actions. We are encouraged to see the hope that Christ brings into our lives and to share the encouragement with our friends and neighbors.

Karl Marx

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

Joseph Joubert

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

P. J. O'Rourke

The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

Ovid

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

Ovid

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Ovid

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

Paul Bloom

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

Oswald Chambers

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Oswald Chambers

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

Oswald Chambers

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Oswald Chambers

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

Oswald Chambers

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Pat Conroy

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Joseph Joubert

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Joseph Joubert

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Mike Dooley

You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

Natalie Clifford Barney

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.