Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.

One universe made up all that is, and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

God gave us the gift of life, it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

God helps those who help themselves.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god, I believe the earth is god, and the universe is god. We're all god.

God has no religion.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Where there is FAITH there is LOVE, Where there is LOVE, there is PEACE, Where there is PEACE, there is GOD, Where there is GOD, there is BLISS.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Without a god life is only a matter of opinion.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something celestial, divine and consequently imperishable.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Dreams are the language of God.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

In God's family there are no outsiders no enemies.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I want to know all Gods thoughts, all the rest are just details.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

The heart of marriage is memories, and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

When the solution is simple God is answering.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell, whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes, Coretta Scott King. I opened my mouth to the lord and I won't turn back no!

Those 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.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I read the book of Job last night I don't think God comes out well in it.

God works wonders now and then, Behold a lawyer an honest man.

White... 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.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God's desire is that we excel.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side, my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

But for my faith in God I should have been a raving maniac.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Get on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.

Faith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I existed from all eternity and behold, I am here, and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain, can experience itself anything less than a god.

Beauty 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.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Conscience is God present in man.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself and for our world.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence, see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep, and six for service to others.

As a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

One's own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one's Maker, and no one else's.

It is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Where love is there God is also.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Men create gods after their own image not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything, save in opposing Thee?

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion, and one Reason.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Heaven means to be one with God.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Have no desire to place before God.

Every being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil, than to suffer no evil to exist.

Thank 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.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us, in the dreariest and most dreaded moments, can see a possibility of hope.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise, to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart, then you cannot hate anyone.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

God has entrusted me with myself.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Each country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Non-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.

God made the country and man made the town.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

People want to listen to a message word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person is what attracts people.

You see, most people think Great God will come from the sky, Take away everything and make everybody feel high, But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

A dish fit for the gods.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; If we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Bacchus n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A healthy body is the best container for a healthy mind. A healthy heart is the temple of God.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I am thankful of course, for the prize, and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Surely 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.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money to fulfill the destiny. He has laid out for us.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself, the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle, or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

He that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Before the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct, than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Beauty is the gift of God.

Mark what a generosity and courage a dog will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who, to him, is instead of a God

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.

Children are God's Apostles sent forth, day by day, to preach of love and hope and peace.

If God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him, but to God, that the gift was made.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

When God Himself comes down to serve man He will indeed be pleased if you too serve man.

The Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not the truth is evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns.

God is the life-breath of every soul.

For where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God so our justice before divine justice.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Believe that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.

The God of death does not give notice of His arrival to take hold of you. He is not like the photographer who says I am clicking are you ready?

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage everything that binds vanishes and I am free.

To us also through every star through every blade of grass is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Communism has decided against God against Christ against the Bible and against all religion.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous, why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise the amazement of the Gods.

Risk is a part of God's game alike for men and nations.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Employ yourself usefully. Be like a trustee holding on trust on behalf of God for the purpose which He likes and approves.

That God does not exist I cannot deny That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

If ye despise the human race and mortal arms yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God it won't love us in return.

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Just as the soul fills the body so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body so God gives food to the world.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually and you will not sin will learn to love and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

Out of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

To achieve release man kneels before a million Gods in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached he is freed indeed!

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

God does not deny anyone, it is only you who deny God. When the gift is proffered you have to do only one little act so that you may earn it. You have to extend your hand to receive it.

A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.

I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God's hands that I still possess.

I cannot do anything without God Sai Baba

Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday, you will find it amply rewarding.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Every woman and every man is the mother of God when we carry Jesus in our heart and body through a divine love and a pure sincere conscience. We give birth to Him through a holy activity which must shine as an example before others.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Talent can be developed gift is God-given. But artists have both.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today

I am still far from being what I want to be but with God's help I shall succeed.

The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy like Dionysus riding the leopard without being torn to pieces.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Without God life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it, it is a body with no soul.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

You may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

God is for those who are not for themselves.

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use as His messenger a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

We can't form our children on our own concepts, we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.