Michael Flanders Quotes

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Michael Flanders

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• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Need

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Great
  • God
  • Soul

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Man
  • Religion

• 'Your God doesn’t care about you at all,' Travis said.'All the more reason to care about myself and others.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Thinking

• Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • World
  • God

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.

  

  Benny Hinn
  • People
  • God
  • Healing

• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Mind
  • Christian

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Up
  • Writing
  • True

• I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Happy
  • Laughing
  • Upset

• If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

  

  Michael Flanders
  • God
  • Intended
  • Railways