Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

Paul Bloom

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

Oswald Chambers

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

Oswald Chambers

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Oswald Chambers

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

Oswald Chambers

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Oswald Chambers

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

Oswald Chambers

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

Oswald Chambers

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Pat Conroy

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Joseph Brodsky

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Neil MacGregor

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Niccolo Machiavelli

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Nhat Hanh

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Noah Feldman

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

John Ashcroft

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

Joey Gathright

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

Pat Robertson

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

P. J. O'Rourke

The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

Mary Baker Eddy

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

Mary Baker Eddy

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

Mary Baker Eddy

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

Marquis de Sade

What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

Mark Twain

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

Mark Twain

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Nicholas Sparks

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

Muhammad Iqbal

We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.