988 private quotes tagged god

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” — Ronald Reagan

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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.” — Albert Einstein

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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 hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.” — George Eliot

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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” — Mark Twain

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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” — Blaise Pascal

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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire

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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

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“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.” — Aeschylus

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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 as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.” — Samuel Butler

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“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.” — John Lennon

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“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” — William Shakespeare

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“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.” — Ronald Reagan

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“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” — John Lennon

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“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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