988 private quotes tagged god

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

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

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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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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“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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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” — C. S. Lewis

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“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.” — John Lennon

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

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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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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.” — Tupac Shakur

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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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