Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Danko

God don't like complaints.

Raymond Chandler

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

Rick Warren

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

Rick Warren

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

Rick Warren

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Rick Warren

God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

Rick Warren

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Rick Warren

The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.

Rick Warren

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

Rick Warren

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

Rick Warren

You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

Rick Warren

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

Rick Warren

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Rick Riordan

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.

Paola Antonelli

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Paramahansa Yogananda

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Ovid

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

Ovid

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect — resembles more or less its original — in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.