Quotes with god-nature

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2226.

• Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

  Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

  David Hare
  British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
  

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke
  American journalist (1947 - )
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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

  Emma Goldman
  American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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• Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

  Henry Jacobsen
  Norwegian politician (1898 - 1964)
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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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• Pray to God and say the lines.

  Bette Davis
  American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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• Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet
  British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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• Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

  Søren Kierkegaard
  Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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• Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

  C. Neil Strait
  American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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• Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

  John Selden
  British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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• Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.

  Too Busy Not to Pray

  Bill Hybels
  American church figure and author (1951 - )
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• Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

  Peace Pilgrim
  American activist, mystic and pacifist
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• Progress is the stride of God.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

  Oliver Cromwell
  Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• take-no-prisoners
• blind-folded
• imagination
• overwhelmed
• violations
• understand

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