Ex-Benedict

There is no substitute for the Bible. - Henry Halley

The proverb answers where the sermon fails. - W.G. Simms

An honest man's the noblest work of God. - Alexander Pope

God forgives those who invent what they need. - Lillian Hellman

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. - Voltaire

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler

If there were no God, there would be no atheists. - G K Chesterton

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. - Gabriela Mistral

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite. - C S Lewis

Praise increases where the excellence is attained but by few. - Edward Counsel

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. - Alfred Korzybski

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. - Walt Whitman

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

The kingdom of God always appears upside down to the human perspective. - David Jeremiah

And 'tis my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. - William Wordsworth

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God - they pass all understanding. - James I

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mahatma Gandhi

In this religious order has flourished and is revitalized the order of Knighthood. - Knights Templar

I do know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. - Charles Dickens

There is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption. - Rick Perry

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue. - Plato

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. - George S Patton

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. - Josh McDowell

The longer you are on this journey of faith and understanding, you actually realize how little you do know. - Ravi Zacharias

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Blaise Pascal

I am one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. - Martin Sheen

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

Stay positive in every situation and everything you do; never stop trying. Have faith, don't stop due to failure. - Anurag P Ray

"I am who I am", said God to Moses regarding His name, because none was worth to be compared to His godhead. - Toba Beta

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer. - Ravi Zacharias

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito. - C S Lewis

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. - Bertrand Russell

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. - Ernest Hemingway

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us. - Charles Spurgeon