Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBy its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. RockefellerAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodI can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou HoltzIf you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.
Robert KiyosakiIf God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesIn some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert OppenheimerWhat’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn MonroeNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
HeraclitusOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiTo do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon BonaparteNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenA man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas CarlyleI’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
Kamala HarrisGod doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
ChanakyaWe’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
Joyce MeyerAny of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘
Joel OsteenEven more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.
Russell M. NelsonI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMen do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John SteinbeckOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Jean-Paul SartreNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel KantTruth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNeither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
Terry PratchettPeople just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.
Dolly PartonYou just have to have a simple faith.
Jimmy CarterPrayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma GandhiI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenPrayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma GandhiThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EpictetusTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William JamesReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac NewtonIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranHeaven means to be one with God.
ConfuciusThe superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
ConfuciusThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisNo traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John MuirPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen HawkingOne knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.
David ByrneReligion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher HitchensIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaHe best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. ForbesFreedom without limits is just a word.
Terry PratchettMost of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
Joyce MeyerWhen men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel JohnsonOnly God can look at somebody’s heart.
Joel OsteenI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutMan never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
PlatoLuck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
Emily DickinsonThank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry AdamsTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Christopher ColumbusThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
ConfuciusThe eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato