Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herodotus

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Henry Ford

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

Helen Reddy

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

Henry Ward Beecher

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Henry Ward Beecher

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Henry Ward Beecher

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

Henry Ward Beecher

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Henry Ward Beecher

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Henry Ward Beecher

We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

Henry Ward Beecher

God's glory is His goodness.

Henry Ward Beecher

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Henry Ward Beecher

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

Henry Ward Beecher

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Khalil Gibran

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Jonathan Safran Foer

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Norman Mailer

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Orson Pratt

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Cromwell

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Mason Cooley

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Mason Cooley

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Mason Cooley

People invent gods to explain their suffering.