Huston Smith Quotes

'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

Huston Smith

• God
• Spirit
• Pride
• Blessed
• Egotism

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • God

• There is not a fellow under the sun who is my disciple. On the contrary, I am everybody's disciple. All are the children of God. All are His servants. I too am a child of God. I too am His servant.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Children
  • Sun

• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects-if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Great
  • God
  • Experience

• When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Sea
  • Blessed

• 'For God's sake, where is God?'And from within me, I heard a voice answer:'Where He is? This is where hanging here from this gallows...'That night, the soup tasted of corpses.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Night

• Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

  

  Charles Studd
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Career
  • Blessed

• I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Taken

• God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God

• God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • God

• We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • World
  • God
  • Interesting

• God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • God
  • Believe

• For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • God
  • Serious

• For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Need
  • Virtue

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • World
  • Present
  • Lesbian

• 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Pride