God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "You've got to be kidding. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: God prayer answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: hunger religion needs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, "Fuck it, " as in "Fuck it; it's in God's hands. —Anthony Hopkins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing. —Francis of Assisi More about this quote Tags: God prayer desire want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four. —Ivan Turgenev More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find it very difficult to ask God for things in the way that I was taught as a child. Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the 6 million Jews who went into the gas chambers? —Karen Armstrong More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. —Michael Servetus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And when it was claimed / the war had ended, it had not ended. —Denise Levertov More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. —José Narosky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here I am in Books 5, 6, and 7 of The Iliad, looking in on the clamorous terror of Homeric battle. Lances are being driven clear through eye sockets, livers, and genitals, brains pour out of mouths and severed heads, limbless torsos spin like marbles about the black-blooded earth, men catch their gushing bowels in their hands, crashing "thunderously as towering oaks" onto the blood-soaked ground, and throughout this mayhem there remains on both sides one obsession, one concern: to call an occasional truce that will let each side bury its dead properly. So onto this field of carnage warriors ride, carrying the olive branch, announcing a respite that will enable each camp to carry out its funeral rites. By mutual consent, and for this purpose only, all fighting stops. —Francine du Plessix Gray More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. —John Lennon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more war. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. —Simone Weil More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email