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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
- Stephen Hawking
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
- Thomas Jefferson
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.
- G Campbell Morgan
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
- Oswald Chambers
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
- William James
We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.
- Myles Munroe
The Council of Nicæa. An ecumenical council was a new experiment. Local councils had long since grown to be a recognised organ of the Church both for legislation and for judicial proceedings. But no precedent as yet prescribed, no ecclesiastical law or theological principle had as yet enthroned, the 'General Council' as the supreme expression of the Church's mind.
- Philip Schaff
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
- Phillips Brooks
It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal --carries the cross of the redeemer--not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
- Joseph Campbell
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Augustine was right: "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God.
- Randy Alcorn