Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

C. S. Lewis

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

C. S. Lewis

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

C. S. Lewis

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

C. S. Lewis

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C. S. Lewis

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

C. S. Lewis

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

Catullus

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Carrie Fisher

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

Bill Vaughan

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Bill Vaughan

God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.

Bill Vaughan

Where God is, all agree.

Bill Vaughan

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

Bill Vaughan

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Jon Postel

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.

It is always in the back of your mind. Especially around this time of year. God knows we don't want to do that again.

Muqtada al Sadr

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God.

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.

Joyce Meyer

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

Starship Farragut has proven it's legitimacy as a respectable film project. Within six months, they produced their series trailer starting from scratch and this is a significant achievement. God Speed Starship Farragut!

That could have hurt us. Thanks god we had a big enough lead.

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.

Listen to your enemy, for God is talking.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

Jonathan Harris

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

I worked for two and a half years trying to recover from that injury and today God reserved this for me and the Brazilian team. I am very happy.

Rutina Wesley

I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.

Jimmy Carter

I still pray for peace...between the Israelis and the Palestinians, between the Israelis and the Jordanians and Lebanese and Syrians, ... I pray that God will have his hand on the shoulders of those who still seek peace.