Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

John Dryden

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

John Dryden

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

John Dryden

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

John Dryden

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

John Dryden

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

John Locke

In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

John Lennon

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lancaster Spalding

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Jodi Rell

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

Joyce Meyer

God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.

Joyce Meyer

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

Joyce Meyer

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

Joyce Meyer

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

Joyce Meyer

Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.

Joyce Meyer

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

Joyce Meyer

I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

Joyce Meyer

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

Joseph Conrad

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Karen Hughes

My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Joy Williams

Did the walls of the barn start to tremble With a glory they could not contain? Did anyone wake with the feeling Of peace that they could not explain? Oh the love must have been overwhelming As it warmed everyone in it's flow For all of the earth is still telling of 2000 Decembers ago.

Josh Billings

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Karl G. Maeser

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

Karl Barth

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.