Famous Quotes & Sayings

John B. S. Haldane

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The life of God — the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things — may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

Garrison Keillor

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

Garrison Keillor

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

Garrison Keillor

Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

Franklin Graham

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

Franklin Graham

After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.

Francois Fenelon

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

Francois Fenelon

God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.

Francois Fenelon

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Greg Boyle

The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And God knows the ones we don't know about.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

Francis of Assisi

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Thomas Watson

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Hermann Weyl

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

Hermann Hesse

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Henry Van Dyke

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Joseph Addison

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.

Jose Bergamin

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Jose Bergamin

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Jorge Luis Borges

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Khalil Gibran

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Jonathan Safran Foer

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

Lloyd Banks

When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.