God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheGod screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy GrahamWe hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George EliotI just want to lobby for God.
Billy GrahamChristians are not limited to any church.
Billy GrahamTrue prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
Charles SpurgeonThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James MadisonThe fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.
Will RogersThey say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
Kanye WestMan is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry AdamsPolitics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
Pope FrancisThere’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Joel OsteenWe knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
Stephen CurryA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan PoeGod not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. NixonIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. LewisWe’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 MeyerI’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
Joel OsteenA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconThere are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
Charles SpurgeonLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
Erma BombeckI’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.
Margaret AtwoodWe all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.
Joyce MeyerThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeThe Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.
Joyce MeyerGod knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Billy GrahamThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyI think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.
Joel OsteenI do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
Joel OsteenIf I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles SpurgeonThe God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond TutuThe liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard ShawThere are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Thich Nhat HanhI have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence NightingaleBegin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne DyerWhen I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.
Lana Del ReyThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreIn spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
Charles SpurgeonI’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce MeyerI am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
George LucasThe day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.
Joyce MeyerBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalI believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
John LennonAll that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Khalil GibranI read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
Virginia WoolfI just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.
Joel OsteenAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan WattsI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaWhen you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘
Wayne DyerGod’s desire is that we excel.
Joel OsteenHeaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
Billy GrahamThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesMy faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
Dalai LamaI believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.
Joel OsteenRight now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.
Pope FrancisThe moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard ShawThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei