“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire
Category
Faith Quotes
FaithGodReligionSpirituality
17 quotes on faith, god and spirituality — from the classics to the everyday.
quolira
quolira.com
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy · A Confession, 1882
“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”
Ovid · "Ars Amatoria", c. 2 BC
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
Prince
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the National Prayer Breakfast, 1963
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Matthew 17:20, New International Version
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”
Martin Luther King Jr. · "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34 · The Bible, English Standard Version
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 · The Bible, New International Version
“We commanded man to be good to his parents. His mother carried him with increasing weakness, and his weaning takes 2 years. Be grateful to Me and to your parents.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:14
“Do not turn your nose up at people, nor walk about the place arrogantly, for God does not love arrogant or boastful people.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:18
“O my son, keep up the prayer, command what is right, forbid what is wrong, and bear with patience whatever befalls you. These are matters of great determination.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:17
“O my son, even if a deed were the weight of a mustard seed and hidden inside a rock or anywhere in the heavens or earth, God would bring it forth. God is all-subtle, all-aware.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:16
“O my son, do not associate anything with God. Associating others with Him is a tremendous wrong.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:13
“He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature. Knowing his nature, he knows Heaven.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VII A
