Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Yancey

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

Mother Teresa

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

Mother Teresa

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

Mother Teresa

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

Mother Teresa

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

Mother Teresa

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

Mother Teresa

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

Victor Hugo

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Victor Hugo

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

Victor Hugo

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

Victor Hugo

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Victor Hugo

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the universe!

Victor Hugo

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

Victor Hugo

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

Victor Hugo

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Robert Fulghum

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

Robert Frost

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Robert Frost

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Robert Frost

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

Robert Frost

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

Robert Frost

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....

Robert Frost

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Robert Frost

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

Robert Frost

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

Robert Frost

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

Robert Frost

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

Robert Frost

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....

Richard Thompson

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

Thomas Nagel

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas More

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

Thomas Paine

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Thomas Paine

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Thomas Paine

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.