#god

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#destiny #extent #fail #god #legacy

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#god #person #virtuous #without #you

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desire #end #full #get #god

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#charlie #ever #god #how #know

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#god #itself #more #pray #prayer

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes! ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#ever #exercises #god #had #i

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#god #hearts #made #phenomena #poor

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗