988 private quotes tagged god

“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“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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“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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“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.” — Ambrose Bierce

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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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“My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.” — Ray Bradbury

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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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“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.” — Martin Luther

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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” — Richard Dawkins

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“We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” — Aristotle

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“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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