Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Bergamin

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Jose Bergamin

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

John Adams

It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.

George Barna

These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

Henry Adams

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

Henry David Thoreau

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

Mahatma Gandhi

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

Mahatma Gandhi

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

Mahatma Gandhi

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

Mahatma Gandhi

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

Mahatma Gandhi

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

Mahatma Gandhi

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Johannes Tauler

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Johannes Kepler

If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.

Johannes Kepler

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

Johannes Kepler

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

Johannes Kepler

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

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.

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

The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Michael Redd

This says a lot about this team. We've been up and down all year. The gods are with us.

The big issue out there is who's going to take on Godzilla bank, i.e. the Post Office. It can turn into a problem.

It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.

It's ridiculous what that kid can do. I just thank God he's on my team. I wouldn't want to play him.

It's unbelievable, ... What God has provided for us is miraculous.

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

Tommie Harris

That just shows you the power of prayer. My mom told me I was going to make it. She was like, 'I'm praying for you. God already told me it's done.' And I was like, I don't know how that's gonna be done with three sacks.