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Category: God and Religion

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1. "Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited."

Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

2. "God is not dead but alive and working on a much less ambitious project."

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Quotations about: Inscriptions etc.

3. "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

4. "If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

5. "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: Life and Death

6. "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

7. "Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."

Albert Schweitzer

8. "The blood of Christians is seed of Christianity."

Tertullian

9. "God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."

Simone Weil, "Love"

Quotations about: Love

10. "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

11. "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

St. Augustine of Hippo

12. "God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him."

Lev Tolstoy

Quotations about: Human

13. "Good is only beauty put into practice."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

14. "God [...] created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution."

Graham Greene

Quotations about: Various

15. "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

Rabindranath Tagore

16. "Trust God, check all others."

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Quotations about: Trust

17. "The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me."

Martin Buber

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

19. "Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

20. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

Albert Einstein

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21. "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

22. "Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side."

Bob Marley

Quotations about: Human

23. "The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

24. "True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue."

Joseph Joubert

25. "The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life."

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

26. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

27. "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

28. "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

29. "If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence."

Simone Weil, "Detachment"

30. "How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life."

Martin Buber

Quotations about: Life and Death

31. "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

32. "No one is without Christianity [...] Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Human

33. "Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

34. "Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation [...]."

Rabindranath Tagore

35. "The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

36. "Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

37. "He who sings prays twice."

St. Augustine of Hippo

38. "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals

39. "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

40. "God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

Martin Buber

Quotations about: Human

41. "No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

Albert Einstein

42. "Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."

Miguel de Unamuno

43. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

St. Augustine of Hippo

44. "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Henry Louis Mencken

45. "Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. "

Miguel de Unamuno

46. "If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing."

Blaise Pascal

47. "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Human

48. "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

49. "God creates out of nothing. [...] but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, "The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

50. "Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

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