Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Harte

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Eckhart Tolle

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Charlotte Bronte

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

Charles Spurgeon

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Branch Rickey

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Charles Baudelaire

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Elias Hicks

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain

Austin O'Malley

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

C. S. Lewis

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Sathya Baba

When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.

Charles Baudelaire

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Guy Finley

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

James E. Faust

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

James E. Faust

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

James E. Faust

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

Lactantius

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Anthony Trollope

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.