JACQUES GAUVIN, RELIGION

Quotes On God, Life And Death

I don^t want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen (1935 ~ )

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 ~ 1965)

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 ~ 1950)

I am going to concentrate on what^s important in life. I^m going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I^m going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I^ll see death and I^ll remember.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan (1941 ~ )

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jesus in John 3:3 (KJV)

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno (335 BC ~ 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering ~ and it^s all over much too soon.
Woody Allen (1935 ~ )

But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
Isaiah 66:2 (NASB)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen (1935 ~ )

Life is as tedious as a twice~told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare (1564 ~ 1616), ^King John^, Act 3 scene 4

Life isn^t fair. It^s just fairer than death, that^s all.
William Goldman, ^The Princess Bride^

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally ^Famous^ Amos (1936 ~ )

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder (1897 ~ 1975)

The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
Socrates (469 BC ~ 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.
2 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 ~ 1965)

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler (1835 ~ 1902)

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:18 (NIV)

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
James 2:26 (NASB)

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold then in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas (1884 ~ 1968)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie (1860 ~ 1937)

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6 (NASB)

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer

Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus in Matthew 18:3 (ASV)

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca (5 BC ~ 65 AD), Epistles

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawyer (1960 ~ ), ^Calculating God^, 2000

All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them: 35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:34~35 (ASV)

Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath. 13Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: 15For this people^s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed;
Jesus in Matthew 13:11~15 (ASV)

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Jesus in Matthew 6:6 (ASV)

The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
Jesus in Mark 4:11 (NIV)

God must become an activity in our consciousness.
Joel S. Goldsmith

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.^ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Jesus in Matthew 22:37 (NIV)

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

if anyone will not work, neither let him eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NASB)

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton (1593 ~ 1683)

In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Jesus in John 14:20 (ASV)

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Jesus in Matthew 7:7 (NASB)

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter 1:16 (KJV)