„I'm not a religious man, right, I don't even believe in God. But still Catholic, obviously.“
— Dara Ó Briain Irish comedian and television presenter 1972
Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal (2006)
„I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray.“
As quoted in At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl (1987) edited by Inge Jens, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn; also in Voices of the Holocaust : Resistors, Liberation, Understanding (1997) by Lorie Jenkins McElroy
Kontext: I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray. Sometimes when I utter God's name, in fact, I feel like sinking into a void. It isn't a frightening or dizzying sensation, it's nothing at all — and that's far more terrible. But prayer is the only remedy for it, and however many devils scurry around inside me, I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.
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„When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Quelle: Think Big (1996), p. 147
„I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.“
— Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943
— Adam Goldstein American DJ 1973 - 2009
James Montgomery DJ AM Says He Was 'Saved For A Reason' In First Post-Crash Interview http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1597103/20081015/dj_am.jhtml October. 15 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2009. (October 2008).
— Jon Krakauer American outdoors writer and journalist 1954
Author's Remarks.
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003)
Kontext: I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. There are some ten thousand religious sects — each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief. And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why — which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.
— Britney Spears American singer, dancer and actress 1981
CNN interview with Tucker Carlson http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/cnna.spears/ (3 September 2003)
„I don't need to pray. I have God in myself.“
— Ashraf Pahlavi Iranian royal 1919 - 2016
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
„I try to be a Christian…I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.“
— Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985
Quoted in interview by Merv Griffin, from Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, NY (1989), page 576.
— Natalie Merchant American singer-songwriter 1963
Orlando Sentinel (6 November 1992)
Kontext: I grew up as a TV baby, with my TV babysitter, up until I was about 10. Then my mother just ripped the thing out of the wall and put it in a closet, and we didn't watch it. I have that sort of ability to become addicted to it. And I'm just so fascinated by it once I turn it on, I'm not even that aware what's there. I'm just watching it. So I don't ever turn it on. I get my news from the newspaper. I don't want to watch the Hollywood news product on TV... There's no other piece of furniture in my home I'd stare at for three hours at a time, so I try not to do it to the TV.
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
To the good God, nothing is little because He is so great and we so small- that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us- to give us a chance to prove our love for Him.
Quelle: Knoansw, A Simple Path Quotes – The Inspiring Book Of Mother Teresa, September 03, 2020 https://knoansw.com/a-simple-path-quotes-mother-teresa/
— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957
address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
2007, 2008
— Robert Rauschenberg American artist 1925 - 2008
Quote from interview: 'Robert Rauschenberg talks...', Maxime de la Falaise McKendry, 6 May 1976, p. 34
1970's
— John Frusciante American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer 1970
On "By The Way" Documentary
