Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McBride

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Novalis

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

Novalis

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

Norman Vincent Peale

There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

Norman Vincent Peale

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

Norman Vincent Peale

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Norman Vincent Peale

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.

Emile M. Cioran

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Emile M. Cioran

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Ellen G. White

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Epicurus

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epictetus

Think of God oftener than you breathe.

Epictetus

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Emily Carr

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

Emily Carr

enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

Emily Dickinson

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Emily Dickinson

Home is the definition of God.

Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Greg Boyle

The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And God knows the ones we don't know about.

Hermann Weyl

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

Hermann Hesse

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Henry Van Dyke

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Henri Nouwen

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Heywood Broun

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

Hesketh Pearson

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.