988 private quotes tagged god

“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” — Desmond Tutu

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“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.” — Abu Bakar Bashir

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“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.” — Bob Dylan

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“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?” — Lily Tomlin

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“God help those who do not help themselves.” — Wilson Mizner

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“The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.” — Mohamed Al-Fayed

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“Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.” — Jim Elliot

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“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.” — Charles Stanley

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“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” — Lee Trevino

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“We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.” — Dwight L. Moody

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“As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.” — Jesus Christ

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“God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.” — Ramakrishna

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“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?” — Quentin Crisp

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“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.” — Fred Melamed

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“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius

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“If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.” — Charles Stanley

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“The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.” — Billy Tauzin

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“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.” — Meister Eckhart

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“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.” — Vance Havner

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