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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGod is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingGod's desire is that we excel.
Joel OsteenSex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette DavisSir 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.
Abraham LincolnYour idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath TagoreBut for my faith in God I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma GandhiWhile 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.
Maya AngelouGet on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.
Sai BabaFaith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise PascalLet 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.
Mother TeresaEvery person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Deepak ChopraI can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou HoltzIt's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerBelief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineGod will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy GrahamGod always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim ElliotEvery child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath TagoreConscience is God present in man.
Victor HugoGod's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself and for our world.
Billy GrahamMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayWe 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.
Mother TeresaGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard KiplingOf 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.
Sai BabaAs a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul KalamGive food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.
Sai BabaGod gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
William Arthur WardIt is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell HolmesDesire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.
Sai BabaGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisIt 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.
H. L. MenckenHeaven means to be one with God.
ConfuciusWhat 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.
William ShakespeareThe dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward BeecherEvery 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.
Sai BabaIgnorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. LewisGod puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us, in the dreariest and most dreaded moments, can see a possibility of hope.
Maya AngelouGain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.
Sai BabaNeither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise, to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
AeschylusHave the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart, then you cannot hate anyone.
Sai BabaEach country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.
Sai BabaGod's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeNon-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiGod made the country and man made the town.
William CowperThe 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.
William BlakeGod intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
C. S. LewisJesus 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.
Alan WattsA dish fit for the gods.
William ShakespeareIt is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
Mother TeresaGod sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma GandhiMen 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThough we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma GandhiOur humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis BaconThere is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma GandhiNo matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward BeecherBelieve 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.
Sai BabaThe 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?
Sai BabaLet every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel ButlerA subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheRisk is a part of God's game alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettJust 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGod is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt 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.
Simone WeilA bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.
Sai BabaI 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.
Martin LutherI cannot do anything without God Sai Baba
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
William BlakeThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsEvery 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.
Francis of AssisiKeep 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.
Joel OsteenTalent can be developed gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Carroll O'ConnorTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today
Isaac AsimovI am still far from being what I want to be but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van GoghThe goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy like Dionysus riding the leopard without being torn to pieces.
Joseph CampbellWe must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWithout 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.
Sai BabaGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellYou may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister EckhartGod is for those who are not for themselves.
Sai BabaWe can't form our children on our own concepts, we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is a human form in which every Divine Entity every Divine Principle that is to say all the names and forms ascribed by man to God are manifest.
Sai BabaBut God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Desmond TutuWe make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt'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 KingLo! The poor Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clouds or hears him in the wind.
Alexander PopeBe good be serviceable, Be useful be kind and Be God-fearing.
Sai BabaHave faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then you can have peace and joy whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.
Sai BabaThe experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice WalkerIf God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister EckhartAll the twenty-four hours you should be in the remembrance of God.
Sai BabaGod wears Truth the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth, Truth liberates, Truth is power, Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
Sai BabaIf God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusGod made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn fact service is the first step along the spiritual path for service to man is service to God.
Sai BabaOnce we surrender our mind to GOD completely HE will take care of us in every way.
Sai BabaThank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan RiversGOD is ONE without a second.
Sai BabaGod alone is the giver of life the guardian of life and the goal of life.
Sai BabaGOD gave you the time space cause material idea skill chance and fortune. Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
Sai BabaWe fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham MaslowWhat is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
Sai BabaThere is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen which I fervently pray God to avert from that date I view our liberty gone.
Andrew JacksonA man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. LewisThere are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right, then have it your way."
C. S. LewisYou may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel OsteenOur Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin LutherHuman society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.
Sai BabaComputers are like Old Testament gods, lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph CampbellThe eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister EckhartOceans are many but Water is one,Religions are many but God is one,
Sai BabaIf it turns out that there is a God I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody AllenAny God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice WalkerThe day of the absolute is over and we're in for the strange gods once more.
David Herbert LawrenceIn my country of South Africa we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings children of the same God by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond TutuThere cannot be a God because if there were one I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich NietzscheAnd so there is no God, but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel ButlerAs flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareTo live without evil belongs only to the gods.
SophoclesWorry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse, it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is a god within us.
OvidWhen his life was ruined his family killed his farm destroyed Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
Stephen KingI try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel OsteenThe body will shine if the character is fine, service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
Sai BabaOne person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister EckhartGod flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking communicating and writing back 50 years.
Robert H. SchullerGod gives everything, whatever we get is His grace. You have no right to judge whether what you get is good or bad.
Sai BabaBecause one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor HugoI think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.
Paul RyanDevelop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
Sai BabaI am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?
Sai BabaOur ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the existence of God. Since he didn't know the answer his personal gain/loss ratio dictated an affirmative conclusion.
Warren BuffettGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm.
William CowperTo you I'm an atheist, to God I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody AllenThe sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim ElliotBehold a worthy sight to which the God turning his attention to his own work may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing worthy of a God a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhenever a man makes haste God too hastens with him.
AeschylusBy 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 MertonYou damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
Francis of AssisiBut at any rate the point is that God is what nobody admits to being and everybody really is.
Alan WattsHappiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
EuripidesGod pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward BeecherThe chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. MenckenGod has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.
Francis BaconGreat thoughts and a pure heart that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil