Able Quote by Ethel Waters

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I…

— George Whitefield

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure,…

— Thomas Paine

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

— John Ortberg

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I…

— Lauren F. Winner

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying,…

— George MacDonald

What would God have me do with my life?

— Ezra Taft Benson

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

— Patti Smith

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every…

— Loretta Lynn

You would attain to the divine perfection.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer