Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were just praying like we had never prayed before. God kept his hand on us.

Al Franken

You know who's doing a 'there but for the grace of God go I?' Scalia.

Sathya Baba

To God be the praise. I am only the slave of God.

William Shakespeare

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Henry Eyring

God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.

Sathya Baba

When you see with your inner eye. Then you realize that you are God and not different from Him.

I say, He has the power. If I lay down on someone and he passes away ? God took him, I didn't!

I said, ?My God, man.? Every professional knew this was a possibility.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

pardon in the name of God for the things that he had done wrong.

Thank God for Steve, ... I can't thank him enough. He started to do CPR right away.

Bud Selig

Thank God -- and us --for the wild card.

My motive for running is to get Texas out of the 'Thank God for Mississippi' club.

Julia Cameron

My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?'

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

Anne Lamott

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

Anne Lamott

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

Anne Lamott

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

Anne Lamott

A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

Anne Lamott

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

Anne Lamott

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

Anne Lamott

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Albert Schweitzer

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Albert Camus

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

Albert Camus

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

Albert Camus

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Albert Camus

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Annie Besant

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Annie Besant

When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

Annie Besant

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

Clay Aiken

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

D. H. Lawrence

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

D. H. Lawrence

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.