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When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.
~god sayings by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
~god quotes by Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home
~famous quotes about Birth by William Wordsworth
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
~god sayings by Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~god sayings by Vincent McNabb
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, Let there be light! And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
~inspirational sayings about Light quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.
~god quotes by O.C. Ogilvie
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
~famous quotes about Love Sayings by Beatrice Saunders
Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
~god sayings by A.P. Herbert
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
~god sayings by Alfred North Whitehead
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~inspirational sayings about Writing quotes by Gustave Flaubert
One might be asked How can you prove that a god does not exist? One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved.
~god quotes by David A. Spitz
Woman didn't get the short end of every stick. At least God gave us handheld massaging shower heads.
~famous quotes about Women by Rhann Morgan
All men have need of the gods.
~god sayings by Homer
[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart.
~god sayings by Arthur Bestor
Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
~good sayings about Math by Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
~god quotes by Julius Charles Hare
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.
~motivational quotes about Food sayings by Robert Fuoss
Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.
~god sayings by Russian Proverb
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
~god sayings by Franz Kafka
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
~good sayings about Parties by P.J. O'Rourke
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
~god quotes by Jim Bishop
To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
~motivational quotes about Baseball sayings by Geoffrey Boycott, 1989, how a cricket batsman feels when facing a fast bowler
History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions.
~god sayings by Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
~god sayings by John Lancaster Spalding
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~good sayings about Forgiveness by Josh Billings
How can something bother you if you won't let it?
~god quotes by Terri Guillemets
The horror of that moment, the King went on, I shall never, never forget! You will, though, the Queen said, if you don't make a memorandum of it.
~motivational quotes about Adversity sayings by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
~god sayings by Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
~god sayings by William Shakespeare
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~good sayings about Attitude by Kahlil Gibran
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~god quotes by Buckminster Fuller, 1972
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~motivational quotes about Food sayings by Heywood Broun
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
~god sayings by Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
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