Quotes About Life

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

The world is God's world, after all.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

If there is no God, there is no hope.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.