988 private quotes tagged god

“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

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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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“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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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir

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“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.” — Michelangelo

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

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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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“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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“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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“God always takes the simplest way.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“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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“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” — John Wooden

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“To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.” — Woody Allen

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“God's first creature, which was light.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Each one prays to God according to his own light.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.” — Woody Allen

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“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.” — Thomas Paine

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