In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.
~By William Rowley ~
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
~By William Shakespeare ~
God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
~By Mark Twain ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
~By John Osborne ~
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
~By Conor Oberst ~
David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him.
~By John Fisher ~
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
~By Nanci Griffith ~
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
~By Jim Elliot ~
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
~By Euripides ~
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
~By Sharron Angle ~
Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
~By Jesus Christ ~
You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.
~By Teena Marie ~
God enters by a private door into every individual.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
~By Whitney Houston ~
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
~By Willa Cather ~
When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!
~By Jeremy Spencer ~
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
~By Theodor Reik ~
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
~By Charles Fort ~
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
~By Alan Cohen ~
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
~By Euripides ~
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
~By Francis Atterbury ~
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
~By Randall Terry ~
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
~By Kanye West ~
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
~By Bobby Darin ~
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
~By Alan Paton ~
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
~By Jerry Lee Lewis ~
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
~By Alfred Loisy ~
The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus.
~By Robin Williams ~
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
~By David Brainerd ~
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
~By Daniel J. Bernstein ~
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
~By George Borrow ~
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
~By Walter Smith ~
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.
~By Donald Cargill ~
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
~By William Ames ~
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
~By Laurence Housman ~
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
~By Martin Luther ~
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
~By Mike Tyson ~
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
~By Alfred Korzybski ~
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Why does God endow us with compassion?
~By Franz Schubert ~
I have never lost my faith in God.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
~By Erika Slezak ~
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
~By Ferdowsi ~
God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
~By Ignatius Loyola ~
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
~By Derek Luke ~
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
~By Don Young ~
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
~By Chris Matthews ~
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
~By Sally Struthers ~
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
~By Martin Niemoller ~
If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
~By Carol P. Christ ~
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
I think there's a passion for God like never before.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
~By Aeschylus ~
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
~By William Ames ~
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
~By Adam Clarke ~
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
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