Quotes About Coming Closer To God

#1. Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

Nachman Of Breslov

#2. All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#3. If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Selena

#4. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

#5. They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

David Letterman

#6. How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Matthew Simpson

#8. Books aren't just books
they're a completely different world
in the palm of your hands

Charlotte

#9. It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and our relationships are stronger and closer.

Joel Madden

#11. I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. 10.35 p.m. Just pressssd d SEND. Issfineisn' tit. DO NOT TEXT WHEN DRUNK

Helen Fielding

#13. I love people. I enjoy people.

John Catsimatidis

#14. The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#15. The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines - a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

Martin Filler