Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francesca Lia Block

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Forest Whitaker

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

George Washington Carver

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

George Washington Carver

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

George Washington

[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.

George Washington

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

God knows what is in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God is dead, everything is allowed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

John Ruskin

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

John Ruskin

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

John Owen

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

John Milton

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

John Milton

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

John Milton

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

John Milton

Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

John Milton

These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

Miguel de Cervantes

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Miguel de Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Miguel de Cervantes

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Robert Herrick

Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.

William Wordsworth

The gods approveThe depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. (2 Samuel 22:3)