Life Quotes

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

~ Annie Dillard

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

~ Annie Dillard

When I think of existence, I cannot help but wonder, What is life, anyway? Where do I fit in the grand scheme of life? What is the point of it, anyway? Is this a test—and if so, am I passing it?

~ C.j. Sinclair

Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?

~ Jim Anderson

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

~ Sorin Cerin

Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?

~ Sorin Cerin

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?

~ Sorin Cerin

Genetic code is a divine writing.

~ Toba Beta

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

~ Kedar Joshi

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

~ Surgeo Bell

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

~ Tabitha Robin

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

~ Vivian Amis

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

~ Charles Bukowski

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

~ Elizabeth George

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God here I am, use me! and he'll give you the assignments that will make your life a fulfilled one. Now dress up to work!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,Or tried to find anything,And I didn’t find any more explanationThan the word explanation having no meaning at all.

~ Alberto Caeiro

I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man’s good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.

~ William Faulkner

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

~ Charles R. Swindoll

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

~ Jeannette Walls

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

~ Jeannette Walls

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

~ Jestoni Revealed

Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

~ Anne Holm

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

~ Johanna Spyri

The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building was vibrating in anticipation of the sweeping sword of sound from the Choir.The note exploded in our midst, and at that moment I knew our creator had touched not only me but all of us, just as Harriet had touched that sculpture with a loving hand long ago, and in that touch I sensed the indestructible fidelity, the indescribable devotion and the inexhaustible energy of the creator as he shaped his creation, bringing life out of dead matter, wresting form continually from chaos. Nothing was ever lost, Harriet had said, and nothing was ever wasted because always, when the work was finally completed, every article of the created process, seen or unseen, kept or discarded, broken or mended – EVERYTHING was justified, glorified and redeemed.

~ Susan Howatch

God the EaterThere is a god in whom I do not believeYet to this god my love stretches,This god whom I do not believe in isMy whole life, my life and I am his.Everything that I have of pleasure and pain(Of pain, of bitter pain and men's contempt)I give this god for him to feed uponAs he is my whole life and I am his.When I am dead I hope that he will eatEverything I have been and have not beenAnd crunch and feed upon it and grow fatEating my life all up as it is his.

~ Stevie Smith

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.

~ Toni Sorenson

We are in God’s hands. We can’t come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him.

~ Toni Sorenson

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

~ John Wyndham

No human mind can fully grasp the gift of Christ’s atonement, the vastness and inclusiveness of the act—but in the end, it comes down to just you and Jesus. You’ve come, and He’s met you with open arms—and now it’s just between the two of you.

~ Toni Sorenson

Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it.

~ Philippe Claudel

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.

~ Sorin Cerin

You have perhaps heard some false reportsOn the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten--Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond themWere that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears--And where is the German Reich? There alsoWill be prodigious America and world-owning China. I say that all hopes and empires will die like yours;Mankind will die, there will be no more fools; wisdom will die; the very stars will die;One fierce life lasts.

~ Robinson Jeffers