One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
Michael GreenLord of myself, accountable to none.
But to my conscience, and my God alone.
John OldhamWhen I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods
Leon Battista AlbertiIt is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
Pope Gregory VIIIf you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold McMillanHere lie I, Martin Elginbrodde:
Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God;
As I wad do, were I Lord God,
And you were Martin Elginbrodde.
George MacDonaldGod help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson MiznerA man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William FaulknerI always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. [Including music?]
Billy Ray CyrusGod will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich HeineArguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.
Robert FulghumDo what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J Carter BrownA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope'We don’t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair’s religious views
Alastair CampbellGod's footballer hears the voices of angels
Above the choir at Molineux
Billy BraggGod made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul ValeryWhen we have match'd out rackets to these balls,
We wll, in France, by God's grace play a set. [Henry V]
William ShakespeareWe are based out in Essex and God knows how many white van drivers we have had shouting out of their windows that we are dopers and they didn't want the Tour de France here
Bradley WigginsI am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco FrancoI feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.
Jim BakkerAs God once said, and I think rightly...
Margaret ThatcherUltimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman MailerThere's a wideness in God's mercy
Like the wideness of the sea (Oratory Hymns)
F W Faber'for God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son' John 3:16
Jesus ChristYou 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 AndersonThe experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice WalkerThere are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!
Katherine HeiglIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [Genesis, 1:1-3]
The BibleMusic is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter LandorThank God, I have done my duty
Horatio NelsonA dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John CalvinIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusPray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint AugustineGod gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. [So where did the modesty come from, Jean Claude?!]
Jean Claude Van DammeMan has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund FreudLife is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Singer'Is it easy to love God?' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.
C S LewisWhom the gods love dies young (The Double Deceiver)
MenanderOh, that God the gift would give us
To see ourselves as others see us
Robert BurnsThese poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damned fool if they weren't.
Dylan ThomasMirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonGod has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Imamu Amiri BarakaBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De LamartineOh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? [Under Milk Wood]
Dylan ThomasThe most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
Mohamed Al-FayedWe're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
PlutarchGod is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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