quotes about faith in god

A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown



You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~Charles Dickens



Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. ~Mark Twain



He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones



Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be. ~Author Unknown



No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822



When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. ~Bill Lemley



We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~Carl Sagan



Epitaph: an inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there; a brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.



It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue." ~Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns



Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown



Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown



Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote



Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb



Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz



We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts. ~Martin H. Fischer



God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree



Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. ~Mark Kramer



Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843