If I Should Wake Before I Die

damn with faint praise - Alexander Pope

Man is a god in ruins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work praises the man. - Irish Proverb

Faith is not bereft of reason. - Ravi Zacharias

You cannot serve God and Mammon. - Bible

Without God life makes no sense. - Andrei Bitov

God gave burdens, also shoulders. - Yiddish Proverb

God forgive you, but I never can. - Elizabeth I

A human life is a story told by God. - Hans Christian Andersen

Praising all alike, is praising none. - John Gay

I will praise any man that will praise me. - William Shakespeare

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. - Mark Batterson

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

If God is the author of life, there must be a script. - Ravi Zacharias

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

It only rains straight down. God doesn't do windows. - Steven Wright

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. - C S Lewis

Man - a creature created at the end of a work week when God was tired. - Mark Twain

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson

Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. - Robin Williams

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making. - Ordway Tead

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. - Psalms 19:1

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

Every evening I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. - Mary C. Crowley

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing. - F.B. Meyer

I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan

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

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas

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

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. - Indian Proverb

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

In hard seasons, God is not trying to destroy you. He is trying to bring the best out of you. - Unknown

A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. - C S Lewis

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked. - Mark Batterson

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Thomas Aquinas

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

He made us all one true religion, Edith, which he named after his son, Christian - or Christ, for short. - Archie Bunker

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. - Max Lucado

If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. - C S Lewis

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path. - David Jeremiah

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty. - Mark Batterson

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C S Lewis

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

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen

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

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' - Billy Graham

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

God has already arranged a comeback for every setback, a vindication for every wrong, a new beginning for every disappointment. - Joel Osteen

So often the difference from where we are, and where God wants us to be, is the pain we aren't wiling to endure to get there. - Craig Groeschel

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. - T. Guillemets

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. - William James

I ain't got no respect for no religion where the head guy claims he can't make no mistakes. Like he's, waddya call, inflammable. - Archie Bunker

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

I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith