Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pietro Metastasio

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

Pindar

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

Pierre Corneille

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Philippe Halsman

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

Philip Robinson

The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.

Pope Francis

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

Pete Wilson

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

Paulo Coelho

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

Paulo Coelho

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

Paulo Coelho

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation...

Phil Robertson

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Peter Shaffer

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Peter Marshall

Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Quentin Crisp

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Prince

God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

Plutarch

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Plutarch

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Plutarch

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Plutarch

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Philip Yancey

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

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.

Mother Teresa

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

George MacDonald

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.