3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
3 December 2020 James Whitcomb Riley It is no use to grumble and complain It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
3 December 2020 Stephen King And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
3 December 2020 Jupiter Hammon But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
3 December 2020 Ramakrishna More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
3 December 2020 Dan Millman Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.
3 December 2020 Guru Nanak God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
3 December 2020 Epicurus If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
3 December 2020 Ramakrishna A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
3 December 2020 Henri Nouwen Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
3 December 2020 LeBron James You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
3 December 2020 Jim Elliot The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
3 December 2020 Lee Trevino If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
