There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
Ernest Holmes

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
Ernest Holmes

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Ernest Holmes

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Voltaire