Faith & Spirituality Sayings

I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man.

God helps those who help themselves.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are.

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is toiling in this art that God has given me to increase my life.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I have no friend. I must live alone. I know that I am closer to God than other artists; I commune with Him in my art.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

The artist's hand is but the instrument of his soul.

He was of a dark and melancholy temperament, and very quarrelsome.

Gold is a wonderful thing! And whoever possesses it can do what he will in this world, and can even help souls to Paradise.

The Church says the Earth is flat, but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

We came here to serve God and the king, and also to get rich.

Let us not fear, for God is our guide.

Their temples are as high as our towers, but their gods are false.

Whatsoever there is of motion, is caused by some other motion, and is therefore dependent on some other cause, and so on, in an infinite series, without any first cause; or else, if there be a first cause, it must be God.

I perceived it was possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and that, instead of the speculative philosophy usually taught in the Schools, we might find a practical, by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, t…

I trust in God.