Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Dobbs

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

John Fowles

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

John Fowles

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Jonathan Haidt

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Jonathan Edwards

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Jonathan Edwards

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

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.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Every creature is a word of God.

Mary Daly

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Pope Benedict XVI

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

Pope Benedict XVI

Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but will serve life which is stronger than death, and love which is stronger than hatred.

Pope John Paul II

An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning.