God Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

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

Henry Beecher

~ God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ~

Francis Bacon

~ God gave us memories that we may have roses in December ~

J. M. Barrie

~ What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. ~

Terry Eagleton

~ Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace ~

Saint Augustine

~ Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself ~

Georg Christopher Lichtenberg

~ There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit ~

Al Gallagher

~ Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent ~

Waite Hoyt

~ You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~

Earl Weaver

~ God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death ~

Patrick Henry

~ God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery. ~

William Cullen Bryant

~ The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. ~

Ben Jonson

~ I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this. ~

David Crosby

~ Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity ~

Voltaire

~ If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ~

Linda Henley

~ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. ~

Bible

~ For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. ~

Bible

~ And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. ~

Bible

~ Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus! ~

William Augustus Croffut

~ If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. ~

Alan

~ When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ In your outer life If you can feel Consciously and soulfully happy Even while doing Ordinary, mundane things, God will consider this Your real meditation ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ Excerpt from Meditation: God Speaks And I Listen ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ In prayer you communicate with God, in meditation God communicates with you. ~

Unknown

~ In silence lies the ability to listen; to listen to ourselves, to others and to God. Listening is a lost art. Without it we cannot communicate, we cannot relate to each other and so we cannot live life meaningfully. We need to learn to listen. Sitting in silence allows us to listen to ourselves and to understand. This silence can heal. The worries, the pain can be healed when we listen. Spiritual medicine is ever-present in the soul. Whenever we need it, to whatever extent we need it, we can find it within. ~

Unknown

~ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. ~

Owen Felltham

~ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. ~

Owen Felltham

~ Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. ~

Francis Quarles

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