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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -- Winston Churchill
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking. -- Ray Comfort
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand. -- Philip James Bailey
Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker. -- Robert Muller
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes. -- Orson Scott Card
The fact that Disney bought Maker Studios doesn't really change anything for me. -- PewDiePie
Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. -- Hosea Ballou
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. -- Jack Kerouac
To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. -- John Wolcot
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker. -- Joseph Hertz
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. -- James Hervey
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions. -- Abigail Adams
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul. -- Erica Jong
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. -- Miguel de Cervantes
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality. -- C. S. Lewis
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. -- Theodore Parker
What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe. -- Timothy Keller
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? -- John Milton
Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. -- Patricia Briggs
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about. -- Cotton Mather
To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. -- John Ruskin
Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. -- Sheila Walsh
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. -- Philip Yancey
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. -- Andy Paula
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe. -- Clement of Alexandria
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given. -- Thomas Carlyle
For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. -- Tom Tryon
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit. -- Adrian Rogers
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us. -- George W. Bush
Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story. -- N.D. Wilson
Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker. -- Joseph Hertz
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people. -- Frank Herbert
For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall. -- Henry David Thoreau
See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices... -- Charles Kingsley
On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest. -- Nathaniel Cotton
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. -- Robert South
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power. -- Joseph Joubert
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. -- Sinclair Lewis
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. -- Alexander Pope
I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God! -- David Berg
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose. -- Thomas Carlyle
Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker. -- William Shakespeare
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker. -- Ray Comfort
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity. -- Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. -- John Dryden
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. -- Charlotte Bronte
Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack. -- Kiersten White
The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation. -- Thomas Jefferson
A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations. -- Heber J. Grant
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. -- Clive Barker
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . -- Charles Dickens
Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye. -- Howard Dietz
The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own. -- Horace Bushnell
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. -- Vince Lombardi
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality. -- John Updike
Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child's play. -- Charles Spurgeon
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker. -- Yasmin Mogahed
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters. -- John Dryden
...we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully... -- Julian of Norwich
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle. -- Thomas Jefferson
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The fallow and the flood; In God the earth rejoices still, And owns her Maker good. -- Reginald Heber
To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. -- Max Lucado
We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self. -- Julia Cameron
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God. -- Alexander Pope
Liszt commenting on the music of FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions. -- Frederic Chopin
I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. -- William Blackstone
Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come. -- Woodrow Wilson
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will. -- William Blackstone
The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty. -- J. I. Packer
Loghain shook his head in disbelief. "Maker's breath, man, aren't you suppose to have some dignity? Somewhere?""Me? Dignity?""Being the supposed future King and such.""I think Rowan took my dignity."She snorted derisively, folding her arms. "There was nothing else worth having. -- David Gaider
A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun. -- Matthew Henry
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. -- John Adams
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands. -- Orison Swett Marden
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. -- E. Stanley Jones
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. ... -- Olaf Stapledon
But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly. Their guardian angels weep; demons beholding them dance for joy.But only The Maker decides what ultimately happens to them. -- Anne Rice
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established. -- Saint Augustine
Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind. -- William Samuel Johnson
Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25 -- Edwidge Danticat
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. -- John Muir
Well, sometime Mr â??â?? git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr â??â?? head open, she say. Think bout heaven later. -- Alice Walker
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. -- Woody Allen
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. -- Theophile Gautier
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. -- Tecumseh
I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself. -- Ashanti
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- William Ralph Inge
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same. -- Rem Koolhaas
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. -- G. H. Hardy
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. -- William S. Burroughs
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business. -- Lloyd Kaufman
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. -- Mary Barra
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. -- Joni Mitchell
I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. -- Mo Rocca
I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive. -- Alice Waters
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. -- Jimmy Carter

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