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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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“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.” -Charles Darwin
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“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.” -Michael Jackson
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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.” -Charles Morgan
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“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.” -Erich Fromm
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“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.” -Voltaire
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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” -George Washington Carver
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“I think art is the only thing that’s spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people’s interpretations of God. I don’t think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.” -Marilyn Manson
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“I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.” -Little Richard
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“I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!” -Ken Hensley
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“My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.” -John…
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“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.” -Ayrton Senna
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“In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” -Andre Gide
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“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.” -Malcolm X
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” -Charles V
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“Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” -Pablo Picasso
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“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.” -Charles L. Allen
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“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.” -Junipero Serra
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“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about…
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“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” -Chester W. Nimitz
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“When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.” -Jane Wagner
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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That’s the truth. And on that note, I’ll say goodnight. God love you.” -Bobby Darin
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“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.” -Sai Baba
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“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.” -Plato
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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.” -Albert Camus
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“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.” -Abdul Kalam
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“I don’t have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.” -Bill Cosby
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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” -John Muir
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“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.” -Cesar Chavez
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“Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’” -Annie Dillard
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“God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.” -Mike Tyson
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“When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I’d go on and try to get it together.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” -Socrates
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“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.” -Tupac Shakur
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“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” -Anne Lamott
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“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” -Basil Hume
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“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” -Robert Kennedy
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“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.” -John Lennon
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“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” -John Adams
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“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.” -Chanakya
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“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.” -Michael Jordan
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“God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.” -Khalil Gibran
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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” -Aristotle
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“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.” -George Washington
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“The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.” -Allyson Felix
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.” -John Clayton
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“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -Galileo Galilei
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“There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!” -William Shakespeare
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“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” -Vincent McNabb
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“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” -Jonathan Edwards
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“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.” -Helen Keller
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.” -Joseph Campbell
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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” -George S. Patton
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“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.” -Muhammad Ali
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“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” -Mother Teresa
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“Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.” -Mark Twain
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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” -Arthur Young
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“God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.” -Albert Einstein
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“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” -e. e. cummings
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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” -John Wooden
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“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.” -Jean Paul
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“God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” -Kelly Clarkson
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“I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.” -Bob Marley
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“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Adoration is caring for God above all else.” -Evelyn Underhill
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“The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.” -Pope Shenouda III
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“God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.” -Arthur Peacocke
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“They always win who side with God.” -Frederick William Faber
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“God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.” -Xenophanes
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“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.” -Alfred Jarry
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“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” -Will Smith
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“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.” -Herodotus
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“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” -Garth Brooks
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“People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.” -Pearl Bailey
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“Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.” -Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.” -Ted Williams
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“God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.” -Johannes Tauler
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“Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.” -Gloria Trevi
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“God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent – it extends through all space, with all other matter.” -Orson Pratt
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“I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.” -John Shelby Spong
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“Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.” -King Solomon
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“At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.” -E. Stanley Jones
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“God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.” -Stevie Wonder
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“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” -William Arthur Ward
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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.” -John Locke
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“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.” -Alfred Adler
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“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.” -Geronimo
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“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.” -Francis Quarles
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“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.” -Maya Angelou
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“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” -Lawrence Welk
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“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” -Henry Ford
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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” -Marcus Garvey
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” -Anne Frank
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