Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
Joel OsteenI suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
Brian EnoMy problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.
Jurgen KloppBeing part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.
Vivienne WestwoodDeath 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 ChardinThe incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Stephen CurryGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusThere have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.
Billy GrahamThere are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles SpurgeonWe have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy CarterHas Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
Charles SpurgeonOur words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.
Joyce MeyerOver the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.
Joyce MeyerWe’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Anthony HopkinsThere is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother TeresaI’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 AtwoodSo far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand RussellIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
Joel OsteenAnd if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
Maya AngelouIt doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.
Joel OsteenGod reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David ThoreauOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsYou hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob DylanOh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
Charles SpurgeonGod gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz KafkaEzra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest HemingwayThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreOne word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
Charles SpurgeonHumility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
Joyce MeyerHe best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. ForbesThe older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
Billy GrahamBehold 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 SenecaAnyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
Friedrich NietzschePeople take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
RihannaBelief 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 PascalJust 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 CiceroTo love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor DostoevskyBegin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne DyerGod will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert HubbardDon’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Joyce MeyerWe’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsThis is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
Joel OsteenWhen Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
C. S. LewisThe faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
ConfuciusMany churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
Billy GrahamFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiMy religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma GandhiIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EpictetusThe most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Aldous HuxleyWhenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.
Maya AngelouYoung men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Russell M. NelsonThe major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Paulo CoelhoGod just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.
RihannaGod hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis BaconFaith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin LutherCertain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
Florence Nightingale