John Lennon Quotes

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • God
  • Think
  • Never

• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Make
  • Measure
  • Measurable

• Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • God
  • Country
  • Small

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • God
  • Age

• Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • God
  • History

• I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • God

• 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

• Poet, Singer, Great Heart, May our God bless your name, And the womb that held you, and the breasts that gave you milk. And may God forgive us all.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Great
  • God
  • Heart

• 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

• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I swear to God, if I get shot again, Indigo will strangle me.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • God
  • Shots
  • Swear To God

• People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Death
  • Pain

• I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • People
  • College
  • Football

• I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Effort

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Pain
  • Measure