I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. Ray Manzarek
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. Lord Byron
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. Lauryn Hill
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. Alvin Dark
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter. Christopher Morley
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore. Kinky Friedman
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven. Russell M. Nelson
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. Franz Kafka
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available. Rick Warren
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. William Ames
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. Michel de Montaigne
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. Fridtjof Nansen
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. Jim Elliot