Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Abraham Lincoln

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Abraham Lincoln

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Matisyahu

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

John the Apostle

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

John Wycliffe

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

Rhys Ifans

Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Sathya Baba

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Barry Bonds

Luckily, I'm still playing. Thank God I'm still out there.

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Stephen Baldwin

Luis Palau is the best-kept secret God ever had.

Corbin Bernsen

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Ann Hood

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Ricky Gervais

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

Susan B. Anthony

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

Thelma Houston

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Tiffany Thornton

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

Trai Byers

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

Tony Verna

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Brian Ellis

For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

Bret Harte

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Boethius

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

Brian Sabean

I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast in front of our eyes at every level.

Brian Nichols

You're some special kind of hostage, that's for sure. Maybe, well, do you think my purpose in life is to give myself up to the police? Do you think God wants me to spend the rest of my life paying for my sins?

Brian Robertson

God is diverse and inclusive, not limited and exclusive. You're thinking of a Country Club.

Brennan Manning

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

Jane Goodall

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.