You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.
~By Susan Powter ~
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
~By Rick Warren ~
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
~By Martin Luther ~
The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
~By Jamie Muir ~
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~By William Falconer ~
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
~By Kurt Huber ~
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
~By William Gurnall ~
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
~By Simone Weil ~
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
~By King James I ~
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
~By Edith Stein ~
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
~By Gabriele Nanni ~
Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
~By Winfield Scott Hancock ~
Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
~By Bruce Shelley ~
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
~By Roy Moore ~
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 ~
You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
~By James Brown ~
Where it all will end, knows God.
~By Wolcott Gibbs ~
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
~By Rick Warren ~
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~By Albert Einstein ~
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
~By Saint Teresa ~
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.
~By Dennis Brown ~
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
~By Charles Stanley ~
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~By Malcolm X ~
If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
~By Bob Bartlett ~
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
~By William R. Alger ~
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
~By Thomas Hughes ~
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~By Anne Sexton ~
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~By Mark Twain ~
God's first creature, which was light.
~By Francis Bacon ~
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland.
~By Wladyslaw Anders ~
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
~By Meyer Lansky ~
Every man thinks god is on his side.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
~By Robert Musil ~
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
~By St. Jerome ~
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
~By Rick Warren ~
I am responsible only to God and history.
~By Francisco Franco ~
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
~By Billy Sunday ~
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
~By A. E. Housman ~
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
God primes the pump of obligation.
~By A. P. Martinich ~
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
~By John Templeton ~
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
~By Samuel Butler ~
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
I believe in God.
~By Jerry Only ~
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
~By John Woolman ~
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
~By David Axelrod ~
But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
~By Reginald Maudling ~
My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
~By Richard Nelson Bolles ~
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
~By Tammy Faye Bakker ~
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
~By Willie Nelson ~
Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.
~By Richard Kiel ~
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
~By Lewis Cass ~
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
God is dead!
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
~By Plotinus ~
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.
~By John Sayles ~
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
~By Francis Maude ~
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
~By Orson Pratt ~
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
~By William Ames ~
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
~By Cole Porter ~
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
~By Charles L. Allen ~
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