
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
– Christopher Hitchens
Related Quotes:
- Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens
- To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God’s hour – E M Bounds
- Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters – Sharad Vivek Sagar
- It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. – VE Schwab
- I think she’s too single for me, and she thinks I’m with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think. – Will Advise
- It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach. – Pere La Combe
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I’m not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I’m a weak woman. He thinks wrong. – Heather Day Gilbert
- In essence, Satan doesn’t want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. – Ralph Harris
- The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. – Leonard Ravenhill
- Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return. – Christopher Hitchens
- Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most. – Kevin James Breaux
- Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. – Criss Jami
- It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us – Sunday Adelaja
- A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. – Thomas Kempis
- My goal is to correct evil. I have to instruct these people on the right path. – Viktor Shel
- Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons. – Bryant McGill
- Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. – William Carlos Williams
- The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope. – Elizabeth George
- Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer-”for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them. – Sydney J Harris
- Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my job. – Ron Koertge
- Let the flesh instruct the mind. – Anne Rice
- It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. – Philip Yancey
- Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God’s providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand. – Dillon Burroughs
- That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
- Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. – Christopher Hitchens
- The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them. – Christopher Hitchens
- The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus. – Christopher Hitchens
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
- The finest fury is the most controlled. – Christopher Hitchens
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. – Christopher Hitchens
- The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
- If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is. – Christopher Hitchens
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. – Christopher Hitchens
- When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens