If I Should Wake Before I Die

In God we trust. - U.S. Currency Motto

Man is a god in ruins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am an atheist... thank God. - Dave Allen

Faith is not bereft of reason. - Ravi Zacharias

Self praise is no praise at all. - Lord Byron

Praise doesn't pay the bills. - German Proverb

A good example is the best sermon. - Unknown

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. - Bill Vaughan

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. - Voltaire

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. - Voltaire

Do not pray for easier lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F Kennedy

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans. - Yiddish Proverb

And if I please you so, my lover, remember praise is comely. - Countee Cullen

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid

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

God never sent hunger without sending something to satisfy it. - Ireland Proverb

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. - Victor Hugo

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. - Francesco Caracciolo

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. - Mary McLeod Bethune

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. - Martin Luther

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise. - John Gay

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet

Moses came down with the Ten Amendments, which were God's Bill of Wrongs. - Susie F

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. - Warren Eckstein

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. - Phillip Pullman

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father. - Ravi Zacharias

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

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

The church is close, but the road is icey. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. - Russian Proverb

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Bertrand Russell

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. - Vance Havner

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

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

God isn't asking you to figure it out. He's asking you to trust that He already has. - Unknown

The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. - Alan Watts

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. - Newt Gingrich

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. - Frederick W. Cropp

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. - Helen Rowland

Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. - Ricky Gervais

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. - Frederick Buechner

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. - H R L Sheppard

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith. - Max Lucado

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. - Blaise Pascal

Faith isn't about always having all the answers. Faith is about believing that God will always come through for you. - Unknown

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them. - Nick Vujicic

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Some preachers think only of their sermon; others think only of themselves: the man who wins the soul is the man who aims at it. - Dean Hook

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

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
I keep it, staying at Home
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard for a Dome - Emily Dickinson

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille

God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it. - Vance Havner

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. - Spike Milligan