Famous Quotes

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him.Newmann had seen some truth that was completely out of his power to put into words. But he had come away knowing that even though the world of civilization was made of straw and lantern slides, he must live in it as if it were solid. Even when the heat of the lantern itself burnt away the illusions and a black hole appeared in the middle of the slide.

~ Paulette Jiles

-Хүү минь, чи надад ямар ч өргүй гэж бодож явах эрхийг би чамд олголоо.

~ Honoré De Balzac

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

To love is to communicate, and you can communicate only in truth. Speak the truth, and speak it with love.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Your heart doesn't care about being easy. Your heart only cares about what's true for you.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

If you lie to yourself, you become your worst enemy, attacking from inside. (from The Amazing You movie)

~ Dragos Bratasanu

What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow.

~ Marty Rubin

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

~ Marty Rubin

The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth.

~ Donald H. Calloway

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

~ C.s. Lewis

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

~ C.s. Lewis

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

~ C.s. Lewis

God has no religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

~ Elbert Hubbard

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

~ C.s. Lewis

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

~ C.s. Lewis

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~ C.s. Lewis

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

~ C.s. Lewis

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

~ Harper Lee

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

~ John Lennon

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

~ Sylvia Plath

God save us from people who mean well.

~ Vikram Seth

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

~ Erma Bombeck

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.Be careful seaweed brain. She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.

~ Rick Riordan

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

~ Richard Dawkins

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

~ Alice Walker

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

~ George Carlin

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

~ Epicurus

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert