85 quotes found
“If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.”
“He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.”
“We pray for a messenger from Godwho knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?”
“The arm of flesh will fail you," Bridie's grandmother had been fond of reminding her, especially after she'd started dating, bringing home this one and that one, going on and on about them. "Love w...”
“It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles”
“The moment you exchange spontaneity with rules you've lost the edge of romance”
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness. To set up a theory tha...”
“Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions”
“Over the past five years, Ive said my best prayers every night, havent missed a night, though I gotta admit, if it wouldnt break my mothers heart, Id probably have stopped a year ago. I mean, prayi...”
“If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off.”
“When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.”
“It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other people let him.”
“Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.”
“I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and ...”
“Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”
“You cannot be both religious and unbiased.”
“If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion”
“I Am One, Let Me Become Many. .. PSJ”
“There is no God, but we whole world can creat (God) by loving & helping eachothers !”