God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
– Billy Graham
Heaven | Animals
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
– John Calvin
Apathy | Animals
The dog was created especially for children. He is a god of frolic.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Children | Animals
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
– C.S. Lewis
Animals
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
– C.S. Lewis
Animals
He that will keep a monkey should pay for the glasses he breaks.
– John Selden
Philosophy | Animals
I would give nothing for that man’s religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
– Assorted Authors
Religion | Animals
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
– Augustine
Life | Animals
The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
– Isaac Watts
Animals
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
– G.K. Chesterton
Animals | Freedom
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
– Charles Kingsley
Life | Animals | Youth