The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy GrahamGod cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
Samuel ButlerVulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Dame Edith SitwellI talk to God but the sky is empty
Sylvia PlathGod holds with the strong.
Giuseppe MazziniMan-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave
Friedrich Von LogauMusic is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter LandorYour idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath TagoreGod punish England! (Schwert und Myrte)
Alfred FunkeEvil and good are God's right hand and left.
Horace MannNothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
'Waiting for Godot'
Samuel BeckettAn honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert G IngersollA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
AristotlePoetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls
James Russell LowellBut the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Albert PikeGary Sobers was unsurpassed as an all-rounder, he always played cricket the way the Gods intended - absolutely straight, absolutely hard, but never with malice.
Trevor BaileyGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo PicassoThe Gods were looking down on us - now I'm off to have a few glasses of water to celebrate! And the car is safely docked.
Bryan RobsonGod is gone up on high
With a triumphant noise.
Charles WesleyAnd the wind shall say 'Here were decent godless people;
Their only monumnet the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.'
T S EliotManlike it is to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ like it is for sin to grieve, Godlike it is all sin to leave
Henry LongfellowHistory is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold ToynbeeIs that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods? - Euthyphro 10
PlatoIt is not in fighting that my God delights but in causing the trees to grow, and in adorning the plains with grass and flowers. He loves not the proud warrior nor the hunter, but the lowly and the good
Standish O'GradyEvery person is a God in embryo. Its' only desire is to be born.
Deepak ChopraGod is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
VoltaireWith thanks to God we know the way to heaven, to be as ready by water as by land, and therefore we care not which way we go. (When threatened with drowning by Henry VIII)
Friar ElstowBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
Woodrow WilsonChristian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God
Evelyn UnderhillMany people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man (More Lay Thoughts of a Dean)
William Ralph IngeWhat a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer! [Hymn]
Joseph ScrivenThe difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. [the so-called Problem of Evil]
Samuel ClarkeTwa gods guides me; the ane of them is blin',
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea,
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. [Sonnet]
Mark Alexander BoydNothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Ernst Moritz ArndtGod's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGod sendeth cold after clothes.
William CaldenFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganI love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.
JameliaGlorify God in your body. [1 Cor 6:20]
The BibleIt is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church
Matthew HenryNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo GalileiThe cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.
Richard Le GallienneI believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright'Nietzsche says that we will live the same life over and over again... oh god, I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.' (Hannah and Her Sisters)
Woody AllenGod made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul ValeryMost people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it
Richard DawkinsO, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
Aldo LeopoldI'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
Teri HatcherIf God had intended a round of golf to take more than three hours, He would not have invented Sunday lunch.
Jimmy Hill
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