988 private quotes tagged god

“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.” — Samuel Butler

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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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“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.” — Thomas Fuller

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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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“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” — Woody Allen

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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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“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.” — William Blake

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“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.” — Lord Byron

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

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

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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.” — Josh Billings

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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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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” — George Eliot

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“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!” — Alexander Pope

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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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“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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“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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