Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
~By Abu Bakr ~
O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
~By Anne Boleyn ~
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
~By Cliff Richard ~
God does not play dice.
~By Albert Einstein ~
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~By Voltaire ~
My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
Thank God I'm an atheist.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
~By William Gurnall ~
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
~By John Clayton ~
Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
~By Roma Downey ~
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
~By Cole Porter ~
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
~By Kinky Friedman ~
I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
~By Michael Servetus ~
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
~By Morris West ~
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
~By Origen ~
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~By Anatole France ~
I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
~By Martina McBride ~
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
~By John Amos ~
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
~By George Whitefield ~
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 ~
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
~By Walter Martin ~
If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.
~By Steven Tyler ~
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
~By William Tyndale ~
I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
~By Martin Lawrence ~
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
~By Anthony LaPaglia ~
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
~By Billy Graham ~
God doesn't know things. He is things.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
~By Thomas Guthrie ~
I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
~By Ramakrishna ~
God has entrusted me with myself.
~By Epictetus ~
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
~By Basil C. Hume ~
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
~By George Berkeley ~
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
~By Knute Nelson ~
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
~By George Catlin ~
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
~By Brian Clough ~
God enters by a private door into every individual.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
~By Arthur Hoppe ~
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
~By Simone Weil ~
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
~By Pythagoras ~
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~By Eleanor Powell ~
I only answer to two people, myself and God.
~By Cher ~
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 ~
It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself "God I'm in love."
~By Willa Ford ~
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
~By Junipero Serra ~
You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.
~By John C. McGinley ~
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
~By Daniel Smith ~
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
~By William Ames ~
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 ~
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
~By Jay Leno ~
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 ~
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
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 ~
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
~By Charles Perrault ~
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
~By King Hassan II ~
The noble man is only God's image.
~By Ludwig Tieck ~
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
~By John Clayton ~
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.
~By Johann Most ~
I think there's a passion for God like never before.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
~By Rick Warren ~
To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
~By Roland Allen ~
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.
~By Richard Rolle ~
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 ~
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
God has always been hard on the poor.
~By Jean-Paul Marat ~
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
~By Walter Lang ~
I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
~By Brion James ~
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
~By George Carey ~
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
~By Arturo Toscanini ~
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