Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Anatole France

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.

Carson McCullers

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

Alain de Botton

It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

Alain de Botton

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

Alain de Botton

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Alain de Botton

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

May those that love us, love us; and those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts; if he can't turn there hearts, then may he turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limp.

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

Jean Rostand

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god

Sathya Baba

Oceans are many, but Water is one;Religions are many, but God is one;  

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Karl Barth

No one can be saved--in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved--in virtue of what God can do.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

James L. Buckley

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

Meghan Markle

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

My God is pervading and permeating all places.

My God, we're going to be like Lilliputians out there.

maybe there's just kind of a malaise in the land these days. God knows that's not hard to believe.

Maybe God wanted to give us a new life. They didn't kill us.

Mary Bethune

Next to God we are indebted/ to women, first for life itself,/ and then for making it/ worth living.

Elizabeth Bishop

Someone loves us all.

Aaron Huey

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Abraham Lincoln

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

The will of God prevails.

Abraham Lincoln

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.