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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

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God Quotes and Sayings

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

God is at play,
I am his modeling clay.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor

Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton

Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus

I am a plain ordinary magnificent creation of God,
just like every other plain ordinary
mountain, ocean, tree, animal, and human.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard

Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

God reigns when we take a liberal view.
- Henry David Thoreau

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon

When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I haven't got any special religion this morning.
My God is the God of Walkers.
If you walk hard enough,
you probably don't need any other god.
- Bruce Chatwin

From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II

God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody

Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch

I do not believe in the God of theology
who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The meaning of our self is not to be found
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

Security is not the absence of danger,
but the presence of God,
no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous

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

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

God helps them that help themselves.
- Algernon Sidney

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson

I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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