Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a part and parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a crack in everything God has made

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

And to be here as the man I am now is just a testimony to what God can do in people's lives.

A. E. Housman

A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string.

Even if God is dead, you're going to kiss his ass

James Garfield

Fellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives!

Every time we had a need, God met that need.

Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released.

Don thanked God, me and his wife, Susan,

Don't tempt me with man made when I live with God made.

Brian Greene

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

Brian Eno

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

Anne Lamott

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

You gotta have wisdom, ... To me, wisdom is understanding how God and the universe work.

Patty Griffin

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

Robert Ingersoll

Those who have loved God most have loved men least

Robert Ingersoll

Those who have loved God most, have loved man least

To welcome the Redeemer in his life is for man a source of profound joy, a joy that can give peace even in times of trial. Be, therefore, servants of Truth to take the joy that God wants to give every man.

Jesse Jackson

What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.

Sathya Baba

What is meant by the phrase to know GOD ? It means to love GOD .

Sathya Baba

TURN TOWARDS GOD AND GOD WILL TURN TOWARDS YOU

Joel Osteen

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.