Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Leopold Kronecker

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Lajos Kossuth

History is the revelation of Providence.

Paul Schrader

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants?

Paul Schrader

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Margaret Atwood

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things are full of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

Trevor Pryce

That's a hard play, a two-point conversion, you have to have God on your side. We had Gold; in Gold we trust. That was a great play because that kid was open.

B. C. Forbes

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Barbara de Angelis

That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Bernie Siegel

I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need. If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Every creature is a word of God.

Mary Daly

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.