988 private quotes tagged god

“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.” — Anna Julia Cooper

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“Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.” — Alphonsus Liguori

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“God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.” — Ethel Watts Mumford

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“You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.” — Rick Warren

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“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.” — John Calvin

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“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” — Agatha Christie

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“God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.” — Jill Scott

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“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.” — George W. Bush

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“Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.” — Charles Stanley

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“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.” — William Cowper

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“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.” — Tina Turner

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“I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.” — Haile Selassie

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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” — Karl Barth

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“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.” — Stephen King

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“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” — J. D. Salinger

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“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.” — James Russell Lowell

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“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.” — Minnie Pearl

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