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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

    Author: A. Alfred Taubman
   

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

    Author: A. E. Housman
   

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

    Author: A. E. Housman
   

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

    Author: A. E. Housman
   

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

    Author: A. J. McLean
   

God primes the pump of obligation.

    Author: A. P. Martinich
   

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

    Author: A. R. Ammons
   

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

    Author: Aaron Allston
   

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

    Author: Aaron Allston
   

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

    Author: Aaron Neville
   

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

    Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
   

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

    Author: Abraham Cahan
   

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

    Author: Abraham Clark
   

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

    Author: Abraham Cowley
   

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

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.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
    Topics: Government

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

    Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
   

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

    Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
   

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

God blesses him who helps his brother.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

God helps those who fear Him.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

    Author: Adam Petty
   

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

    Author: Adam Sedgwick
   

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

    Author: Adam Smith
   

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

    Author: Addison Mizner
   

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

    Author: Adolf Eichmann
   

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

    Author: Adoniram Judson
   

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

God always strives together with those who strive.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

    Author: Agatha Christie
   

Even God cannot change the past.

    Author: Agathon
   

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

    Author: Akshay Kumar
   

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

    Author: Al Bernstein
   

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

    Author: Al Jarreau
   

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

    Author: Al Purdy
   

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

    Author: Al Sharpton
   

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

    Author: Alain Delon
   

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

    Author: Alan Coren
   

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

    Author: Alan Hovhaness
   

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

    Author: Alan Keyes
   

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

    Author: Alan Keyes
   

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

    Author: Alan Parsons
   

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

    Author: Alan Paton
   

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

    Author: Alan Perlis
   

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

    Author: Alan Rickman
   

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

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