Famous Quotes & Sayings

Priscilla Barnes

I feel like I did what God called me here to do. I see myself as just the catalyst, a facilitator with a passion to see people be healthy.

Robin Morgan

I feel like I've gotten away from God-knows-what, ... but I feel safe now. I like the treatment I'm getting here. The treatment I'm getting here is much better than I was getting when I was there from the police officers and stuff.

If one refuses to view self as needing integration with God and neighbor, one shrivels like a shrub in the desert.

Shreya Ghoshal

I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.

Maurice Sendak

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

Allison Anders

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

Janet Jackson

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

C. S. Lewis

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

C. S. Lewis

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C. S. Lewis

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

C. S. Lewis

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

C. S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

C. S. Lewis

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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.

Charles R. Swindoll

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

Charles R. Swindoll

God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

Charles R. Swindoll

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Charles Kingsley

Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.

Charles Kingsley

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

Charles Kingsley

Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

Charles Kingsley

Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.

Charles Darwin

Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.