Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Breton

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

Andre Breton

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Andre Gide

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Andre Gide

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Anatole France

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Anne Graham Lotz

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

Anne Graham Lotz

When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.

Anne Carson

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Anaxagoras

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Chuck Palahniuk

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Christopher Morley

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Christopher Morley

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Anquan Boldin

I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.

Anselm of Canterbury

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

Anselm of Canterbury

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Anselm of Canterbury

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Anselm of Canterbury

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Anne Bronte

But, God knows best, I concluded.

Andrew Cohen

Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.

Anthony de Mello

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.

Anne Roiphe

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

Anne Sexton

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

Anne Sexton

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.

Anne Sexton

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

Anne Sexton

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

Anne Sexton

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

Anne Sexton

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

Anne Sexton

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

We are all writing God's poem.