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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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“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” -Jesus Christ
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“God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.” -Ernest Holmes
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“No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.” -Matthew Henry
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“In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.” -Henri Nouwen
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“If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.” -Tyler Perry
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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” -William Butler Yeats
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“And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.” -Sharron Angle
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“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.” -Jean Ingelow
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“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.” -Paul Dirac
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“It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” -Johann Sebastian Bach
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“I’ve always been spiritual but I’ve never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It’s hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.” -Billy Corgan
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“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God’s business.” -Michael J. Fox
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“First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.” -Oksana Baiul
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“We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.” -Marguerite Duras
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“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.” -Anna Pavlova
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“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.” -Mel Brooks
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“Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.” -Paul Tillich
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“The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.” -Rick Perry
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“God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.” -Saint Patrick
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“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.” -Dick Gregory
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“Among God’s creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.” -Andres Segovia
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“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” -J. D. Salinger
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“God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.” -Jean Claude Van Damme
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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God.” -Andy Griffith
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“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.” -Richard P. Feynman
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“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.” -Thomas Fuller
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“I actually pray everyday, but I don’t believe in God.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.” -Deepak Chopra
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“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.” -Tina Turner
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“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.” -William Cowper
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“But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.” -Ellen G. White
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“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.” -George Bancroft
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“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.” -Minnie Pearl
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“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.” -Paul Valery
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“It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.” -Vinoba Bhave
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“I believe that if you’re healthy, you’re capable of doing everything. There’s no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.” -Pedro Martinez
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“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.” -Peter Marshall
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“Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.” -Robert E. Lee
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“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.” -George Eliot
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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” -Marquis de Sade
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“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it’s God first, friends and family second and you third, we won’t ever have an argument.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” -Lee Iacocca
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“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.” -Anna Julia Cooper
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“There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” -Agatha Christie
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“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” -Constantin Brancusi
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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” -Thomas Browne
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“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.” -Haile Selassie
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“God is ever present. He’s in every breath, in every step. He’s here, always, always.” -Jill Scott
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“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.” -William Blake
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“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” -Ansel Adams
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“God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.” -Ethel Watts Mumford
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“God forbid you be an ugly girl, ‘course too pretty is also your doom, ’cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.” -Ani DiFranco
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“And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.” -Spike Milligan
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“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.” -Lenny Bruce
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“Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.” -Gloria Steinem
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“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” -Lil’ Kim
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“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” -Paul Cezanne
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“I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God.” -Orson Welles
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“A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God… When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.” -Marian Anderson
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“It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.” -Francis of Assisi
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“A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It’s actually the opposite of that. It’s realizing that we’re all humans, and that’s why God sent his Son to this earth – to save people.” -Billy Ray Cyrus
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“Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.” -Michelangelo
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“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ‘Shake well before using.’ That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.” -Vance Havner
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“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” -Honore de Balzac
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“God made me and broke the mold.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.” -Stephen Harper
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“We say keep your change, we’ll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.” -Sarah Palin
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“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.” -Blaise Pascal
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“We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.” -Dwight L. Moody
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“The most important thing is God’s blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.” -Mohamed Al-Fayed
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“The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.” -Loretta Young
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“I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It’s a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.” -Fred Melamed
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“The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.” -Billy Tauzin
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“God help those who do not help themselves.” -Wilson Mizner
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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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“We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.” -Golda Meir
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“Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?” -Lily Tomlin
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“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?” -Augustus Hare
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“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?” -Quentin Crisp
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“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” -Stockwell Day
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“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” -Lee Trevino
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“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” -Woody Allen
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“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.” -Thomas Merton
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.” -Isaac Asimov
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“You know, it’s ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.” -Mike Ditka
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“I am what I am, I’m doing very well in my life, and I’m thankful to God for that.” -LL Cool J
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“If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.” -Emily Dickinson
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“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” -Walt Whitman
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“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” -Edmund Burke
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“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” -Mary Manin Morrissey
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“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.” -Farrah Fawcett
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“I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.” -Jim Valvano
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“It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.” -Immanuel Kant
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“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” -Oswald Chambers
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” -Saint Augustine
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“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.” -Martha Graham
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“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.” -Rowan D. Williams
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“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.” -George Orwell
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“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.” -Sigmund Freud
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“The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.” -Billy Graham
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“Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.” -Garrison Keillor
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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” -Bill Watterson
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“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.” -Emmet Fox
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“Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” -Michael W. Smith
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“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.” -Victor Hugo
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“If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.” -Ray Bradbury
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“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.” -Lou Holtz
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“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.” -Arthur Ashe
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“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’” -Richard Branson
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“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” -William James
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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” -Charles Wesley
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“God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” -Izaak Walton
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“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” -Charles Kingsley
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“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.” -Pope John Paul II
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“There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.” -Thomas Paine
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“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.” -Steve Harvey
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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.” -Joyce Meyer
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“The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless…
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“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.” -H. L. Mencken
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“I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.” -Steven Wright
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“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” -Alice Walker
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“Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.” -Warren Buffett
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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” -William Penn
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“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” -Willie Nelson
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“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” -Bede Griffiths
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“Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!” -Angelina Jolie
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -Aldous Huxley
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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” -Patrick Henry
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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” -Epicurus
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“I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.” -Martin…
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“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.” -Henry Miller
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“I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.” -Joel Osteen
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“The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.” -Martin Luther
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“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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