988 private quotes tagged god

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” — Socrates

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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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“God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.” — Warren Buffett

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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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“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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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” — Thomas Paine

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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” — Epicurus

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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” — Victor Hugo

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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” — C. S. Lewis

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“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” — Richard Dawkins

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“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.” — Richard Dawkins

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“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.” — Stephen Hawking

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“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.” — Erich Fromm

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“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” — Mark Twain

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“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.” — Alan Watts

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“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.” — Mark Twain

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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” — Ronald Reagan

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“If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.” — Voltaire

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“The dog is the god of frolic.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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