god
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘god’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.” -Corrie Ten Boom
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“Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.” -Ted Nugent
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“God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t.” -Alfred Korzybski
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“I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it.” -Eden Phillpotts
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“We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.” -Karen Armstrong
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“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.” -Cindy Crawford
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“I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.” -Jimmy Carter
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“I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.” -Ramakrishna
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“O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.” -George Whitefield
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“God is definitely out of the closet.” -Marianne Williamson
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“I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” -Joan Rivers
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“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
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“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.” -Abu Bakr
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“On the field I’m trying to play for the glory of God but then also I’m trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we’re playing.” -Tim Tebow
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“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.” -Anatole France
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“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“I’m a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what’s happening to me.” -Mike Epps
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“You cannot do anything without God.It’s a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.” -Marco Rubio
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“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature’s God, not from government.” -Paul Ryan
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“I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” -John Cleese
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“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
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“To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.” -Prem Rawat
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“The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God’s family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.” -Charles Stanley
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“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.” -Bill Maher
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“Jail didn’t make me find God, He’s always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.” -Lil Wayne
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“God gives me the children’s ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It’s awesome. I don’t know where He’s gonna take it – but God is building this thing.” -Willie Aames
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“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to…
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“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.” -Simone Weil
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“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.” -Glenn Beck
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“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.” -John Stuart Mill
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“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.” -Karl Rahner
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“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.” -John B. S. Haldane
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“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.” -John Donne
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“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” -Beverly Sills
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“I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.” -Christina Aguilera
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“As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.” -Nick Rahall
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“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.” -Howard Dean
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“You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.” -Jim Bakker
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“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“We must return to nature and nature’s god.” -Luther Burbank
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“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.” -Aeschylus
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“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” -Desmond Tutu
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“That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.” -Alexander Pope
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“You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.” -LeBron James
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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.” -Katy Perry
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“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.” -Peter O’Toole
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“It’s always nice when you do something and it’s well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.” -Laura Linney
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“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.” -William Law
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“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” -Prince
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“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.” -Freeman Dyson
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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -Charles A. Beard
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“But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.” -Jupiter Hammon
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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.” -David Wilkerson
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“God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.” -Euripides
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“In life, you have people that love to party. That’s me. People that love God. That’s me. People that love sex. That’s me. People that love people. That’s me. And people that make mistakes.That’s me also.” -R. Kelly
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“When you believe in God, you’ve got to believe in the all-powerful God. He’s not just God, He’s the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone’s life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that’s trying his hardest to tear your life apart.” -Alice Cooper
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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless.” -Neale Donald Walsch
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“Trust in God – she will provide.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
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“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” -Dan Millman
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“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.” -Joyce Cary
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“I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.” -Bryan Clay
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“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.” -Helen Hunt Jackson
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“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail.” -Alija Izetbegovic
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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” -Alan Perlis
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“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.” -Christopher Love
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“I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.” -Wangari Maathai
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“What does God the Father look like? Although I’ve never seen Him, I believe – as with the Holy Spirit – He looks like Jesus looked on earth.” -Benny Hinn
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“Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.” -Guru Nanak
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“To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.” -Anton Chekhov
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“I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.” -Kanye West
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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” -George MacDonald
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“God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.” -Billy Sunday
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“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.” -Naguib Mahfouz
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“I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.” -Virginia Woolf
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“I want to love all the children of God – Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist – everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.” -Anne Rice
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“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that’s beautiful.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.” -Bobby Orr
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“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.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.” -John Calvin
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“Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.” -Konrad Adenauer
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“Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.” -Lord Byron
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“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.” -Denzel Washington
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“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.” -Imelda Marcos
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“I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.” -Mark Wahlberg
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“It is no use to grumble and complain It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.” -James Whitcomb Riley
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“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” -Georg Trakl
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“Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?” -E. O. Wilson
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“If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.” -Rick Warren
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“Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“Put your mind on the gospel. And remember – there’s one God for all.” -Mahalia Jackson
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“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.” -Jim Elliot
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“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.” -William Ames
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“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.” -Tennessee Williams
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“May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.” -Kinky Friedman
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“Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.” -Stevie Ray Vaughan
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“We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.” -Russell M. Nelson
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“God’s finger touched him, and he slept.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.” -Franz Kafka
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“The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.” -Fridtjof Nansen
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“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.” -Olusegun Obasanjo
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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” -Alan Watts
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“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God.” -James Brown
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“Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.” -Elvis Presley
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“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes
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“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” -P. G. Wodehouse
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“I can’t understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that’s not religion, that’s not helping humanity, that’s organizing an army to defeat somebody.” -Mojo Nixon
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“I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.” -Bill Bryson
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“One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.” -Jean Rostand
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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.” -Rose Kennedy
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“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.” -Ray Manzarek
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“Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.” -Lauryn Hill
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“Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.” -Alvin Dark
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“I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn’t seem to matter.” -Christopher Morley
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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.” -James Russell Lowell
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“I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.” -Stephen King
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“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.” -Josh Billings
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“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.” -Ben Stein
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“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief – the other contempt.” -Plutarch
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“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” -Eric Liddell
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“One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.” -Mariah Carey
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“I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.” -John Waters
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“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.” -Mary Daly
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“God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.” -Meister Eckhart
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“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” -Richard Dawkins
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“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.” -Samuel Butler
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“God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.” -Ziggy Marley
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“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.” -George W. Bush
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“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.” -Joan Chen
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“I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.” -Shaquille O’Neal
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“I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.” -Stephen Hawking
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“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.” -Thomas Szasz
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“After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn’t, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God’s Son.” -Josh McDowell
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“I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
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“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.” -Armstrong Williams
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“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.” -Charles Lindbergh
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