I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. Marilyn Monroe
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. Swami Vivekananda
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Benjamin Franklin
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? Friedrich Nietzsche
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice. Pope Paul VI
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. John Lennon
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. Billy Graham
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. Aristotle
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche