Quotes About Legacy

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

God and posterity will show me more favour

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.