Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Victor Hugo

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the universe!

Victor Hugo

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

Victor Hugo

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

Victor Hugo

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Robert Fulghum

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

Robert Frost

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Robert Frost

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Robert Frost

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

Robert Frost

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

Robert Frost

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....

Robert Frost

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Robert Frost

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

Robert Frost

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

Robert Frost

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

Robert Frost

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

Robert Frost

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....

Richard Thompson

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

Thomas Nagel

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas More

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

Thomas Paine

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Thomas Paine

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Thomas Paine

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Huxley

Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.

Thomas Huxley

Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

Thomas Browne

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Thomas Browne

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Thomas Sydenham

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

Thomas S. Monson

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

Sam Harris

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Russell M. Nelson

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Ronald Perelman

I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.