Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'.

Anthony de Mello

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

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.

Anne Sexton

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

Anne Sexton

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Anne Sexton

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

Anne Sexton

Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

Anita Brookner

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Ambrose Bierce

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

Ambrose Bierce

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Alice Walker

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Alice Walker

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Abraham Lincoln

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

Abraham Lincoln

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Aga Khan IV

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Aeschylus

The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

Aeschylus

God always strives together with those who strive.

John McEnroe

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

We take this initiative today to solve this issue from a humanitarian perspective, and God willing we will succeed.

Eckhart Tolle

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.