Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~ James Martineau
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
~ William Pennington
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
~ Hall Caine
I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
~ Oleg Kulik
It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
~ Cheryl Hines
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
~ Charles Stanley
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
~ Ram Dass
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.
~ John Piper
Time was God's first creation.
~ Walter Lang
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
~ Christian Dior
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
~ Thomas Paine
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.
~ Jennie Finch
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
~ Pope Benedict Xvi
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
~ Little Richard
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
~ Malala Yousafzai
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
~ Charles V
That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
~ Sojourner Truth
It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.
~ Keanu Reeves
If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
~ Anne Hutchinson
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
~ Donald Trump
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
~ Jimmy Carter
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
~ Susan B. Anthony
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
~ Halle Berry
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
~ Finn Jones
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
~ George Balanchine
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
~ George Eliot
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
~ Christine Baranski
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
~ Andrew Greeley
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
~ Joel Osteen
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
~ Walt Whitman
Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
~ Bethany Hamilton
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~ Meister Eckhart
Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.
~ Thomas Hooker
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
~ Lou Holtz
