“Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”
– Howard Dean
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”
– Glenn Beck
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.”
– Beverly Sills
“Jail didn’t make me find God, He’s always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.”
– Lil Wayne
“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”
– Simone Weil
“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.”
– Bill Maher
“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.”
– John B. S. Haldane
“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.”
– John Donne
“I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.”
– Christina Aguilera
“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”
– Whitney Houston
“You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.”
– Jim Bakker
“As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.”
– Nick Rahall
“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.”
– Mikhail Bakunin
“If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.”
– Charles Stanley
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.”
– Alexander Pope
“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.”
– Salman Rushdie
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.”
– Alexander Pope
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”
– John Stuart Mill
“I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.”
– Katy Perry
“It’s always nice when you do something and it’s well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.”
– Laura Linney
“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”
– Peter O’Toole
“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”
– William Law
“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.”
– Karl Rahner
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
– Prince
“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
– Freeman Dyson