Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

Chris Crutcher

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

Charles Spurgeon

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Phillips

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

Diane Ravitch

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

Diane Ravitch

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Diane Ravitch

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Michel Faber

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

David Silverman

Nobody finds God in the wake of destruction, ... Very few atheists will look at Katrina or a tsunami and think, 'Oh my, there's a God.'

Sara Sheridan

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Charles Spurgeon

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.

Dennis Prager

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

David Potts

Frankl found that helping others made us stronger, and though he was an atheist when arrested, he found God at Auschwitz,

William Temple

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Dennis Potter

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Denis Diderot

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.