Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
George MacDonaldA god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin GardnerThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottWe can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight MoodyOn any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
PolybiusA lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature.
[The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999]
Richard RortyGod didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.
Mary Kay AshWhen God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton WilderI'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.
Lisa Nicole CarsonDo what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J Carter Brown'We don’t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair’s religious views
Alastair CampbellMan does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and moulded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
Wilford CrossI googled myself this morning and got 7,333,600 matches!
Everything from me being a god to the antichrist. Hey, maybe I am the antichrist.
David HasselhoffOut of disbelief in God we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to our own will. [Diagnosing the problems that have caused all the social ills of the modern age]
Leslie FarberIf there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BoethiusThose whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad
EuripidesAnd he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted. (Deuteronomy 28:37)
DeuteronomyThey serve God well,
Who serve his creatures
Caroline NortonIt is important that we have belief in God at all times of our life, and not just when we feel we have something to request of him or be particularly thankful for.
Benny HinnBusiness 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 WilsonBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaGod punish England! (Schwert und Myrte)
Alfred Funke'And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow... Heal the world.'
Michael JacksonIf God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light.
Pope John XXIIIDo your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
Pierre CorneilleYou give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
Sparky AndersonLike the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacarthurGod is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
Little RichardThose thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonGod, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold NiebuhrAs human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold ToynbeeIf God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusWhen you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, 'It is talking to me, and about me.'
Soren KierkegaardHomer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another.
XenophanesI do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four
Ivan TurgenevThe works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
Jane Grey'I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.'
Elvis PresleyGod is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred JarryNothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
'Waiting for Godot'
Samuel BeckettBut if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.
John ArndtSome say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
Sergey BrinThe Universe is centered on neither the Earth nor the Sun - it is centered on God
Alfred NoyesHold up a one-iron and walk. Even God can't hit a one-iron.
Lee TrevinoSomebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved.
Mother TeresaWoe is me, I think I am becoming a god (When fatally ill)
VespasianWhat 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 ScrivenMother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
Angela CarterA garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
T E BrownThank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not
Charles Kingsley
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