You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
~By Saint Stephen ~
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
~By Brian McKnight ~
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
~By Eberhard Arnold ~
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
~By George Muller ~
I did my best, and God did the rest.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
~By Thomas Brooks ~
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
~By Dean Inge ~
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
~By Robert Collier ~
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
~By Sam Mendes ~
Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.
~By Dick York ~
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
~By Roy Moore ~
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
~By Saint Teresa ~
All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
~By Philip Henry ~
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
~By Jim Elliot ~
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
~By Jesus Christ ~
Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
~By John Clayton ~
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.
~By Kerry Thornley ~
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~By Charles Morgan ~
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
~By Charles Buck ~
Every creature is a word of God.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
I hope that America sees that I'm a fun loving guy and I hope they see the light of God in me, if that makes sense at all. This is a great platform, this is a great blessing that I have, and I I just want them to see something in me that says, 'Everything's going to be okay'.
~By Jacob Lusk ~
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
~By Phyllis Gotlieb ~
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
~By Anna Pavlova ~
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
~By Robert Southey ~
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
~By Amy Grant ~
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
~By Herman Hesse ~
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
~By Robert Duvall ~
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
~By A. E. Housman ~
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
~By George Borrow ~
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
~By Jan Hus ~
I just want to lobby for God.
~By Billy Graham ~
Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
~By Ja Rule ~
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 ~
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
~By John E. Hines ~
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
~By Al Bernstein ~
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Act, and God will act.
~By Joan of Arc ~
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
~By Martin Buber ~
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
~By David Brainerd ~
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
~By Anne Rice ~
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
~By George Whitefield ~
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
~By Tony Campolo ~
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
~By Red Skelton ~
George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
~By Randall Terry ~
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
~By Bill Vaughan ~
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
~By David O. McKay ~
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
The smile of God is victory.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
~By Israel Zangwill ~
I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
~By Bryan White ~
But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
God makes stars. I just produce them.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
~By Joan of Arc ~
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
~By Kate Millett ~
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
~By Link Wray ~
No God without a world, and no world without God.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
~By Johann Most ~
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
~By Andres Segovia ~
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
~By Adam Clarke ~
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
~By Ramakrishna ~
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
~By John Waters ~
At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
~By George Santayana ~
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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