I don’t believe in God. — Gail Porter
I don’t believe in God. …I hope he doesn’t hold that against me. — Rick Reynolds
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God. — R. C. Sproul
You don’t have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book. — Paul Erdos
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. — Fran Lebowitz
Don’t be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be. — PewDiePie
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace. — Thomas Goodwin
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha! — Attila the Stockbroker
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results. — Dave Hunt
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. — N. Scott Momaday
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims. — Yann Martel
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers
A 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. Lewis
A person isn’t considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn’t supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it’s a religion. — Robert M. Pirsig
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. — C. S. Lewis
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin. — Francois Rabelais
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it’s the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world’s problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can’t do a thing about the world’s problems – that it never did work and it never will — Robert Farrar Capon
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. — James MacDonald
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. — William Ellery Channing
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state. — Evelyn Underhill
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. — Deepak Chopra
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. — Josephus
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools…and He has not been disappointed….If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia
God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours. — Louie Giglio
God has no religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. — Voltaire
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don’t think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God. — John Shelby Spong
God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate. — Steve Fowler
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares ‘God wills it thus.’ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. — Carl Sagan
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. — Abraham Lincoln
I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me. — Watchman Nee
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. — Voltaire
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? — Art Hoppe
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. — Ronald Reagan
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction. — Charles Hodge
It is a lesson we all need – to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son. — Horatius Bonar
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
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. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. — Harold Klemp
Man has never been the same since God died. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. — Abraham Lincoln
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin. — Mark Dever
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied ‘agnostic.’ He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: ‘Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.’ This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. — Bertrand Russell
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken
Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need. — Scott Cunningham
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, ‘Before Abraham was born, I am’-and proved it. — Norman Geisler
“Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires…More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.” — Yasmin Mogahed
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. — Harper Lee
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. — Maya Angelou
Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good. — Robert D. Hales
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven. — Nick Yee
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth. — Henry M. Morris
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost! — A. B. Simpson
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. — C. S. Lewis
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch – the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything. — Mark Twain
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. — Rick Warren
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. — Richard Dawkins
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal — God is the Omnipotent Father — hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. — Gore Vidal
The ultimate goal of theology isn’t knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung! — Sam Storms
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell “God” with the wrong blocks. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression. — John Woolman
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder. — Kallistos Ware
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. — Walter Rauschenbusch
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you! — Joyce Meyer
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea. — Yasmin Mogahed
You talk to God, you’re religious. God talks to you, you’re psychotic. — Doris Egan
Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do — Joyce Meyer
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful. — Billy Graham
A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God’s goodness. — Joel Osteen
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God’s gift of life. — Wilferd Peterson
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. — William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. — William Shakespeare
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement. — George W Truett
In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives. — Michael N. Nagler
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him. — John Flavel
Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul. — Albert Mackey
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. — Bede Griffiths
If our country’s choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education. — Zhores Alferov
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge. — David Brewster
If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart. — Dwight L. Moody
Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God’s awareness of your situation. — James MacDonald
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. — Henry Ford
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah! — Charles Spurgeon
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God. — Gemma Galgani
Not surprisingly, the place we’re most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God. — Bruce Wilkinson
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God. — William Tyndale
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. — Emanuel Swedenborg
When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust. — Kari Jobe
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. — Abraham Lincoln
Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die. — Janet Morris
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’ — Bill Maher
The resurrection of Jesus was simply God’s unwillingness to take our ‘no’ for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him. — Clarence Jordan
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy. — Oswald Chambers
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, ‘Just believe in Jesus and you’ll be Saved. There’s nothing more to it.’ It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment. — David Wilkerson
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one’s attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean — Gregory Palamas
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it’s the only way that God can get glory out of a human being! — Paris Reidhead
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. — Billy Graham
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. — Lee Iacocca
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive. — Edwin Louis Cole
Let me remind you that this is God’s universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don’t have a universe to rule. — J. Vernon McGee
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk. — Meister Eckhart
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We’re only one God away from total agreement. — Michael Shermer
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t. — Jules Renard
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? — Woody Allen
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it’s okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water — Mads Mikkelsen
No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it. — Timothy Keller
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. — Thomas Merton
The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it? — Reinhard Bonnke
Don’t yield to Satan’s lie that you don’t have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it! — Richard G. Scott
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God. — Bob Jones, Sr.
Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore. — Charles Spurgeon
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have “learned in suffering what they taught in song.” In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim’s Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire. — George MacDonald
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. — Timothy Keller
The best evidence of the Bible’s being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself. — Charles Hodge
God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life. — David Jeremiah
I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn’t find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap. — Ruth Hurmence Green
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles
Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is. — Ravi Zacharias
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God’s child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields. God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. — Noah Webster
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God. — Charles Fox Parham
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Inside the Bible’s pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. — Ronald Reagan
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God. — Simon Greenleaf
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. — Ronald Reagan
The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. — Harry S. Truman
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! — Unknown
[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God. — Jim Cymbala
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. — Patrick Henry
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him. — Gregory Palamas
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. — John Stott
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart. — Ravi Zacharias
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God’s creative genius is endless. — Eugene H. Peterson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests. — Andrew Jackson
…that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory. — John Hancock
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God’s help, it will continue to be. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture. — Thomas Hobbes
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman. — Thomas Hobbes
But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it. — Thomas Hobbes
For centuries the Bible’s emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery. — Ronald Reagan
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology. — William Holmes McGuffey
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity. — John Adams
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. — Calvin Coolidge
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. — Abraham Lincoln
The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the ‘Year of the Bible.’ — Ronald Reagan
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh. — Abraham Lincoln
This nation under God — Abraham Lincoln
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. … You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand. — Harry S. Truman
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ. — George Washington
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better. — Samuel Adams
This is a Christian nation. — Harry S. Truman
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. — Theodore Roosevelt
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man — Thomas Jefferson
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers’ abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible’s teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. — Ronald Reagan
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies – a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades. — Ronald Reagan
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions. — George Washington
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion. — Benjamin Rush
As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him. — John Adams
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. — John Adams
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. — John Adams
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. — John Adams
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty….The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament. — Samuel Adams
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source – from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come. — Samuel Adams
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. — Abraham Lincoln
I … [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. — Samuel Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. — John Quincy Adams
Let the children…be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God … and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. — Abraham Lincoln
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it. — Abraham Lincoln
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments. — James Madison
God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. — Dave Barry
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator. — George Q. Cannon
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles. — Dennis Kucinich
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good. — Timothy Keller
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. — Felix Adler
We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence — Joyce Meyer
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian. — Pope Francis
Without worship, we go about miserable. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
God’s grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it. — R. C. Sproul
God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. — Charles Spurgeon
We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day. — Pope Francis
When your will is God’s will, you will have your will. — Charles Spurgeon
As believers, you don’t need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head. — Andrew Wommack
No matter what you’re going through there’s no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out. — Joyce Meyer
God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be. — Joyce Meyer
God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working — Joel Osteen
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. — Henry Ford
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. — Thomas A. Edison
When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things. — Joel Osteen
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. — Soren Kierkegaard
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church. — Clarence Jordan
Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great. — George MacDonald
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn’t understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become. — Anne Rice
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. — Charles Spurgeon
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen. — Oswald Chambers
Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. — Max Lucado
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick
Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying — Joyce Meyer
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me. — Horatius Bonar
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness. — Ole Hallesby
As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. — Charles Spurgeon
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world! — Billy Graham
Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. — Charles Spurgeon
God’s part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith. — Andrew Bonar
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible. — Christopher Langan
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be. — Corrie Ten Boom
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white – and we’re all precious in God’s sight. — Jesse Jackson
“Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features” — Countee Cullen
One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them. — Joyce Meyer
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. — Robert Green Ingersoll
…one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue. — William Wordsworth
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment. — Anthony of Padua
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, “I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it.” But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness. — Charles Spurgeon
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God. — Blaise Pascal
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not. — Pietro Metastasio
The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. — Jerry Bridges
There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine. — Deena Metzger
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives… and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. — Nate Saint
When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings. — David Jeremiah
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. — Alexander Pope
“As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
[Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]” — Ovid
A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. — Joseph Campbell
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence — Bertrand Russell
Art is my God, Music is my religion. — Otep Shamaya
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children. — Cory Booker
Don’t think being ‘religious’ means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it–He doesn’t harden it. — Yasmin Mogahed
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights. — Dale Evans
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. — Max Lucado
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. — Jim Elliot
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. — Ray Stedman
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe. — Pope Francis
Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston
I 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 Lennon
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. — Albert Einstein
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being. — Dan Barker
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. — Martin Luther
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. — Alice Walker
If we haven’t learned to be worshipers it doesn’t really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. — Erwin W. Lutzer
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period. — Carter Heyward
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. — Thomas Jefferson
Religious people claim that it’s just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there’s got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists. — David G. McAfee
Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy. — Aga Khan III
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began. — Geerhardus Vos
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God’s worth never changes. — Matt Redman
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ. — Ambrose
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God’s best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you. — Joel Osteen
Where is God? Where can I find him?” we ask. We don’t realize that’s like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean — Ted Dekker
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy. — Timothy Keller
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it? — Yasmin Mogahed
Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God. — Billy Graham
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. — Oscar Wilde
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation! — F.B. Meyer
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he wants to express particular appreciation of a proof he exclaims, “This is from the book!” — Ross Honsberger
When everyone recognizes Jehovah’s name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it. — Prince
Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don’t tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God’s children. Don’t preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give. — Cory Booker
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace. — Frank Borman
“God is bigger than time,
dates, and appointments.
He wants you to move
through this day with a quiet heart,
an inward assurance that
He is in control, a peaceful certainty
that your life is in His hands,
a deep trust in His plan and purposes,
and a thankful disposition,
toward all that He allows.
He wants you to put your faith in Him,
not in a timetable.
He wants you to wait on Him
and wait for Him.
In His perfect way He will put everything
together, see to every detail…
arrange every circumstance…
and order every step to bring
to pass what He has for you.” — Roy Lessin
What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, “Yes, Lord, YES!” to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one. — Hannah Whitall Smith
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. — Lawrence Welk
God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good— and because it’s from Him, even much better — Janette Oke
Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior. — Max Lucado
Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God. — Curtis Hutson
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives! — Yasmin Mogahed
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God’s design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before. — Ravi Zacharias
Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ’s strength. — Perry Noble
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty. — Fethullah Gulen
The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that. — Timothy Keller
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory. — John of Damascus
Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively…that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven. — J. Frank Norris
May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is. — E. Howard Hunt
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience. — David Platt
When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in. — Aeschylus
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. — Marianne Williamson
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. — Prince
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God’s reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given. — Deepak Chopra
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. — Woody Allen
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. — Rudyard Kipling
Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends. — Art Linkletter
Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. — Mother Teresa
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man’s entire relation to God and to his neighbor. — Aelred of Rievaulx
God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks – not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it. — Kay Arthur
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. — Corrie Ten Boom
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. — Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind’s eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection. — Pope Gregory I
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin. — Charles Spurgeon
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon
God helps those who help themselves. — Benjamin Franklin
There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”…The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity. — Henry B. Eyring
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. — Thomas Jefferson
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors. — George Washington
With God, all things are possible. — Wayne Dyer
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. — Anne Frank
At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith! — Joel Osteen
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands. — Mahatma Gandhi
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort
Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you. — Joel Osteen
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! — Charles Spurgeon
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. — C. S. Lewis
Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.” — Watchman Nee
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony. — Marvin Sapp
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick. — Max Lucado
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers — Tariq Ramadan
When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight. — Joel Osteen
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. — Max Lucado
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ. — George Whitefield
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Heaven doesn’t make this life less important; it makes it more important. — Billy Graham
If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival. — Charles Spurgeon
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness — David Platt
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous. — Maya Angelou
If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love. — Charles Spurgeon
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure. — Leslie Weatherhead
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art. — Rajneesh
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life. — Kathryn Scott
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God’s sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left. — Loraine Boettner
Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor. — Gustavo Gutiérrez
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it. — Voltaire
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God’s name, it was bad theology. — Karen Armstrong
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. — Dalai Lama
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. — John Wooden
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. — Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. — Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. — Albert Einstein
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men. — Albert Einstein
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — Jorge Luis Borges
We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children. — Muhammad Ali
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. — Albert Einstein
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. — Anne Lamott
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda
I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can’t worship without giving thanks. It just isn’t possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ — William Arthur Ward
The only source of knowledge is experience. — Albert Einstein
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. — Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. — Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality. — Albert Einstein
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. — Albert Einstein
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. — Eleanor Powell
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. — Mark Twain
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. — Henry B. Eyring
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference. — Russell M. Nelson
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. — Benjamin Franklin
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us. — David Platt
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength. — Dwight L. Moody
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. — Billy Graham
Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me. — Albert Einstein
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.” — Olivier Messiaen
There’s no such thing as perfect people. There’s no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God. — Natalie Grant
God bless… God damn. — James Thurber
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! — William Shakespeare
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Solomon
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. — Ricky Williams
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. — Alan Rickman
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity. — George Saunders
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man. — William Penn
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene
It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it. — Regina Brett
Things can change in the blink of an eye! — Michael Phelps
God provides for him that trusteth. — George Herbert
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn’t come through – You only trusted God to meet your agenda. — Timothy Keller
Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes! — Homer
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. — Sojourner Truth
“A Godly leader … finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant” — Roy Lessin
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience… He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men. — Mahatma Gandhi
The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people. — Wayne Mack
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C. S. Lewis
The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The ‘godly man’ often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision. — Gerry Spence
“I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent…
– Press in to God when you want to pull away.
– Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints.
– Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.)” — Lysa TerKeurst
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. — John Quincy Adams
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. — Al Bernstein
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil. — Increase Mather
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He’s going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you. — Joel Osteen
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity… the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God. — Elisabeth Elliot
It is interesting, that termites don’t build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have…. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation. — Pat Robertson
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I’ve got to get me one of those little accessories. — Courteney Cox
After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God’s love. It took me years to truly understand it. — Joyce Meyer
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. — Allyson Felix
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” from the book of Isaiah — Mitch Albom
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him. — Richard B. Garnett
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is. — Albert Camus
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. — Marcus Aurelius
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein
The kingdom of god… or nothing!!! — Lorenzo Snow
For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence. — Thomas Merton
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children. — George MacDonald
judge not that ye be not judged — John Grisham
Kindness that allows barriers to one’s relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive. — Max Anders
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn’t come through – You only trusted God to meet your agenda. — Timothy Keller
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. — Edward de Bono
Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing! — Christopher Atkins
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good. — Milos Forman
I’m just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I’ve got my dad’s body. Not all of it, thank God. — Rebecca Mader
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He’s helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift’s Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge. — Edward Lear
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. — Horatio Nelson
On this Mother’s Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally . — Ana Monnar
It’s like real life: We don’t get a preview of what’s coming up, thank God, and we don’t build our own character from what we’re going to be informed with in the future. — Frances Conroy
O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small. — John F. Kennedy
There is no God and we are his prophets. — Cormac McCarthy
You can’t trust anybody with power. — Newt Gingrich
Trust is a great force multiplier. — Tom Ridge
Trust in God – she will provide. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles. — Si Robertson
When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen. — James Freeman Clarke
We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart. — Charles Spurgeon
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks. — Isaac Watts
A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid! — Robert Browning
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Solomon
Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God! — T. B. Joshua
My brother, if it’s not in the Bible, He’s not in it!! If it’s not in the Word of God, He is not in it. — Benny Hinn
You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change. — T. B. Joshua
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men. — Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. — Paul the Apostle
