Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Tycho Brahe

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

Tyga

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn’t handle.

Walt Whitman

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Roseanne Barr

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

Rod Parsley

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

Robert Sheckley

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

Robert Plant

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Satish Kumar

There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

Sargent Shriver

But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

William E. Gladstone

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is a majority.

Walter Raleigh

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

Walter Raleigh

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

W. Somerset Maugham

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

Wyndham Lewis

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

William P. Young

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

William Penn

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

He that lives in love lives in God.

William Penn

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Thomas Reid

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

Robert H. Schuller

God's delays are not God's denials.

Robert Anton Wilson

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Rich Mullins

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

Rob Bell

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Tamba Hali

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

Sylvia Plath

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

Swami Vivekananda

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

Roy Moore

God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children

Rumi

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.