Quotes by Authors - Page 166

No good deed ever goes unpunished.
Brooks Thomas
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel de Montaigne
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
Anonymous
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.
Robertson Davies
The sunshine of the mind.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.
Edward N. Westcott
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold
Thomas Hood
It is not my ability but my response to God's ability that counts.
Corrie ten Boom
The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice Walker
God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."
Anonymous
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
God has not promised skies always blue flower-strewn pathways all our lives through God has not promised sun without rain joy without sorrow peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day rest for the labor light for the way Grace for the trials help from above unfailing sympathy undying love.
Annie Johnson Flint
Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett
Above all am I convinced of the need irrevocable and inescapable of every human heart for God. No matter how we try to escape to lose ourselves in restless seeking we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
A.J. Cronin
A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.
Ernest Holmes
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
Helen Keller
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music that song that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Shirley Maclaine
Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.
Rudyard Kipling
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Anonymous
Every law of matter or the body supposed to govern man is rendered null and void by the law of Life God.
Mary Baker Eddy
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
William Ralph Inge
I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
George Eliot
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D. M. Street
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not nor may strong helpers anything avail nor wise counselors give profitable counsel nor the cunning of doctors give consolation nor riches deliver in time of need nor a secret place to defend if Thou Lord do not assist help comfort counsel inform and defend.
Thomas à Kempis
Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.
Bayard Taylor
I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
Therese of Lisieux
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Mary Baker Eddy
For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.
Nancy Parker Brummett
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Etty Hillesum
Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite today is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy
In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson
To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.
D. M. Street
Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.
Yasunari Kawabata
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.
Shakti Gawain
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
George MacDonald
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will or rather our own will is our separation from God.
William Law
Some people talk about finding God as if He could get lost.
Anonymous
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Henry David Thoreau
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
Thomas à Kempis
When we lose God it is not God who is lost.
Anonymous
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
Ernest Holmes
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
Max Lerner
God is a verb not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
God is to me that creative Force behind and in the universe who manifests Himself as energy as life as order as beauty as thought as conscience as love.
Henry Sloane Coffin
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.
David Jenkins
God is incorporeal divine supreme infinite. Mind Spirit Soul Principle Life Truth Love.
Mary Baker Eddy
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance renewed daily of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Man proposes God disposes.
Thomas à Kempis
The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
Meher Baba
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
Axel Munthe
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I am afraid I shall not find Him but I shall still look for Him. If He exists He may be appreciative of my efforts.
Jules Renard
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
Clarence Day
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen