Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

D. H. Lawrence

God is only a great imaginative experience.

D. H. Lawrence

Where sanity is there God is.

D. H. Lawrence

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

D. H. Lawrence

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

D. H. Lawrence

The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

Conrad Aiken

No god save self, that is the way to live ...

Clarence Darrow

Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

Alexander MacLaren

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Alexander MacLaren

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.

Alexander MacLaren

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Alexander Pope

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Alexander Pope

To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

Albert Schweitzer

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

E. Stanley Jones

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

E. Stanley Jones

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

Douglas Adams

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

Countee Cullen

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features

Countee Cullen

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

Cory Booker

Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.

Dwight L. Moody

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

Dwight L. Moody

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

Dwight L. Moody

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Dwight L. Moody

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

Dwight L. Moody

If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

Dwight L. Moody

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

David Attenborough

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.