Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Voltaire

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Voltaire

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

William Ralph Inge

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

William Ralph Inge

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

William Ralph Inge

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

William Campbell

Were all bastards but God loves us anyway.

William C. Bryant

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

William Butler Yeats

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

William Butler Yeats

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

William Butler Yeats

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Walter Savage Landor

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Yogi Berra

50% of all married people are women

Yogi Berra

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Yogi Berra

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

William S. Burroughs

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

William Lawson

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

William Law

We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

William J. H. Boetcker

Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

Vinoba Bhave

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

Woodrow Wilson

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Woody Allen

Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

Woody Allen

My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

Woody Allen

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Woody Allen

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

Woody Allen

I had an IQ test. The results came back negative.

Woody Allen

If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

Woody Allen

If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.

Woody Allen

Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.