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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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.” — Voltaire

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

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“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.” — Victor Hugo

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“I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“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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“God always strives together with those who strive.” — Aeschylus

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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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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C. S. Lewis

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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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