Famous Quotes & Sayings

Therese of Lisieux

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

Therese of Lisieux

What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!

Therese of Lisieux

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Therese of Lisieux

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Therese of Lisieux

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Therese of Lisieux

We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

Therese of Lisieux

Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.

Tertullian

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Tennessee Williams

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Be is to live with God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Shunryu Suzuki

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

Li Hongzhi

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

Lewis Mumford

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream?

Laura Riding

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

Neil Postman

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Marcus Aurelius

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Thomas a Kempis

God is able to do more than man can understand.

Thomas a Kempis

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

Thomas a Kempis

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

Thomas a Kempis

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Thomas a Kempis

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Thomas a Kempis

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas a Kempis

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

Thomas a Kempis

For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

Thomas a Kempis

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

Thomas a Kempis

God deceiveth thee not.

Thomas a Kempis

Man proposes, but God disposes. [Lat., Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.]