The Creation

Thank God for a few free waves. - Miki Dora

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

Praise is ever attendant on great wealth. - Roman Proverb

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. - Viktor Frankl

Faith held solely is the beginning of action. - Unknown

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it. - European Proverb

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas. - Mark Batterson

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant

God, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. - R Buckminster Fuller

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

I have much more faith in a kind man than I do in mankind. - Unknown

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends. - Margot Asquith

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

Praise is rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. - Martin F Tupper

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. - John Piper

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. - Woody Allen

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. - Jean Paul Richter

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. - Unknown

God does not require we be successful, only that we be faithful. - Mother Teresa

For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church. - Sylvain of Athos

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. - Mark Batterson

If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise. - Johann von Goethe

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. - Mother Teresa

Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be. - Sonia Ricotti

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. - George Bernard Shaw

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. - Brennan Manning

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours. - Mark Batterson

I am afraid the clergyman's God is often the head of the clerical profession. - William R Inge

If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. - Anna Delaney Peale

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need. - Carlos Santana

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. - Nicolas Chamfort

A man must be orthodox upon most things or he will never have time to preach his own heresy. - G K Chesterton

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. - Marianne Williamson

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical. - Mark Batterson

God puts you on the runway and takes you off the runway. What you do on the runway is up to you. - Unknown

Praise is but virtue's shadow; who courts her,
Doth more the handmaid than the dame admire - Robert Heath

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. - Charles Dickens

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

Like a great Eastern religion says, it's all about striking a balance between the ping and the pong. - Kelly

Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. - Hyman Rickover

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. - Norman Vincent Peale

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. - Paulo Coelho

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies, but he hopes he'll never have to use it. - C S Lewis

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. - Jonathan Sacks

Be yourself no matter what other people think. God made you the way you are for a reason. Besides, an original is always worth more than a copy! - Unknown

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. - C S Lewis

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. - Joseph Addison

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono