988 private quotes tagged god

“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” — Bill Watterson

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“God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.” — Aeschylus

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“That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” — George Washington

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“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” — Robert Kennedy

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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.” — Martin Luther

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“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” — Martin Luther

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“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.” — Steven Wright

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“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” — Albert Einstein

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“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.” — Plutarch

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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” — Alan Watts

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“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” — Charles Kingsley

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“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Conscience is God present in man.” — Victor Hugo

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“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” — Francis Bacon

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” — Walt Whitman

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