I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. – Vincent Van Gogh
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. – Rick Warren
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. – Guru Nanak
White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. – Bernard Meltzer
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. – Thomas Aquinas
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. – Meister Eckhart
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. – William Blake
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. – Woody Allen
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. – Francis Bacon
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? – Augustus Hare
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. – Lee Trevino
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away. – Jim Elliot
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. – William Blake
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. – Dag Hammarskjold
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. – Matthew Henry
