988 private quotes tagged god

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” — Alan Perlis

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“Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.” — Deepak Chopra

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“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.” — Samuel Butler

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“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” — William Penn

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“Let every man be true and every god a liar.” — Samuel Butler

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“A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” — Mark Twain

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“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” — Martin Luther

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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” — Woody Allen

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“Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” — Francis Bacon

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“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.” — William Blake

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“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.” — George Orwell

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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” — Blaise Pascal

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“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.” — Thomas Fuller

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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” — George Eliot

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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.” — Josh Billings

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“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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