988 private quotes tagged god

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” — Socrates

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“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.” — Voltaire

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

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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.” — Victor Hugo

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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“To love another person is to see the face of God.” — Victor Hugo

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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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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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