Quotes by Authors - Page 182

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
R.D. Laing
All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.
Leon R. Yankwich
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Anonymous
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.
Anonymous
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel de Montaigne
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
Dean William R. Inge
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
That sovereign of insufferables.
Ambrose Bierce
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Lord Chesterfield
Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.
Cleveland Amory
False in one thing false in everything
Law Maxim
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde
All wise people say the same thing that you are deserving of love and that it's all here now everything you need. When you pray you are not starting the conversation from scratch just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
Anne Lamott
Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis
God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
Faith is the force of life.
Leo Tolstoy
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
C.S. Lewis
Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
Leo Tolstoy
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
Thomas Merton
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
Helen Keller
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nobody has ever measured not even poets how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Anonymous
Love is not blind - it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Julius Gordon
Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
Rick Warren
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
George Lancaster Spalding
For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.
Anonymous
In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Robert Collyer
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Carter Lindberg
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.
G.K. Chesterton
Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... He who has faith has ... an inward reservoir of courage hope confidence calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well-even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B.C. Forbes
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
Ruth Benedict
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Lucy Ellman
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Father! Blessed word.
Maria S. Cummins
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
Anonymous
Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
Samuel Butler
Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.
Sam J. Ervin
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
William Ralph Inge