“As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God's ways.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifes…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“God has taken from us our only little Boy. He was to good for this world. We loved him to dearly he could not stay. God wanted him where he could live in a better world. So he sent the angel of death. to take whe [sic] the treasure that he had given us five years and five months ago. and how dear he…”— Buffalo Bill Cody, codyarchive.org
“Once a young woman came to Hafiz and said, ‘What is the sign of someone knowing God?’ And Hafiz became very quiet, and stood in silence for nearly a minute... lovingly looking deep into the young woman's eye, then softly spoke, ‘My dear, they have dropped the knife. The person who knows God has drop…”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com
“God wants to manhandle us, Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself And practice His dropkick.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“For those who see only God, their vision Is pure, and not a doubt remains.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“Know this: If God should shine His lovelight on your heart, I promise you'll shine brighter than a dozen suns.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“Great and formidable Prince Duke of Burgundy, Joan the Maiden requests of you, in the name of the King of Heaven, my rightful and sovereign Lord, that the King of France and yourself should make a good firm lasting peace. Fully pardon each other willingly, as faithful Christians should do; and if it…”— Joan of Arc, archive.joan-of-arc.org
“One people will we be — a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves. We will rely on God's almighty arm, And never quail before the power of man.”— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com
“...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.”— Sri Guru Granth Sahib, amazon.com
“Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me.…”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“Jesus God in Heaven, why'd you have to kill such hot snatch?”— Daniel Waters, Ram, Patrick Labyorteaux, amazon.com