Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Never
  • Human
  • Said

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

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

  

  Iman
  • Beauty
  • Confident
  • Skin

• God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • God
  • Believe

• In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • God
  • Light
  • Beginning

• For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely.

  

  Fred Willard
  • God

• So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

  

  Jan Karon
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I had to learn that this whole God thing isn't just this big religion. It's really that He wants this relationship with us on a personal level.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • God
  • Relationship

• Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • History
  • Giving

• Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

  

  Kristin Cast
  • God

• If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.

  

  Lee Haney
  • People
  • God
  • Honor

• It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • Good
  • God
  • Free

• The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Skin
  • Reduced

• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Food
  • Light
  • Air

• By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Human
  • Skin