Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Steiner

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Jean Cocteau

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

George Carlin

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

Gene Roddenberry

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

Frederick Douglass

One and God make a majority.

Frederick Buechner

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Felix Adler

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Eugene O'Neill

When men make gods, there is no God!

Euripides

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

Euripides

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Euripides

The God knows when to smile.

Euripides

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

Francis Picabia

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Francis Picabia

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Francis of Assisi

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis Chan

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

Francis Chan

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Francis Atterbury

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Francine Rivers

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Francis Bacon

God loveth the clean.

Jeff Smith

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

Jean Rostand

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Jean de La Fontaine

What God does, He does well.

Groucho Marx

Patience is the art of finding something else to do.

Graham Kerr

I am here because God is there.

Harriet Martineau

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.