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" A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. "

Edwin Louis Cole

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" We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. "

" You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away. "

" It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. "

" God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. "

" God has always given me the strength to say what is right. "

" Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive. "

Victoria Osteen

" You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. "

" Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field. "

" Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. "

" The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God. "

" Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "

" The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. "

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Believe In Yourself

" God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. "

" We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God. "

" I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. "

" The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. "

" What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. "

William Shakespeare

" There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. "

" I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. "

" I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. "

Galileo Galilei

" The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life. "

Vincent Nichols

" Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament? "

William Wilberforce

" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

Wallace Stevens

" I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. "

" Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.