Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
Joel OsteenThe fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William ShakespeareThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreBack in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt VonnegutDeath is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George EliotIt may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
Arthur C. ClarkeGod, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mahatma GandhiThe darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.
Margaret AtwoodThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeDeath surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.
Mr. TIt’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingAnd poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen KingNothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin FranklinSuccess is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?
Billy GrahamI am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
Muhammad AliThere are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise PascalWorld belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
Dalai LamaBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaThe difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan WattsIn the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuGod will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert HubbardI 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 GalileiWhen God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.
Henny YoungmanWe came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.
Kanye WestTo you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody AllenFaith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel OsteenGod wants to bless us where we are.
Joel OsteenAll men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
VoltaireI don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
Jimmy CarterI’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
Joel OsteenThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Noam ChomskyDefined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous HuxleyExposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Bill GatesThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MenckenGod has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
Isaac NewtonWithout God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald ReaganThe eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil GibranReligion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhite… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. MenckenGod and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
Dolly PartonTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac AsimovThe word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac NewtonI can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.
Billy GrahamPreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. NelsonGod’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.
Joyce MeyerIt is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. MenckenGod is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Desmond TutuGod not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusSurely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham LincolnI am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard ShawOnly God can look at somebody’s heart.
Joel OsteenCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca