Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Bill Shorten

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Cowher

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

Bill Cosby

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C. S. Lewis

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine.

Arsenio Hall

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Bertrand Russell

Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.

Charles Barkley

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Charles Spurgeon

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Ayn Rand

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

C. S. Lewis

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

Alain de Botton

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

Laura Hillenbrand

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Louis Zamperini

If you can take it, you can make it.

Rick Yancey

Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

Stephen King

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

Sri Aurobindo

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.