988 private quotes tagged god

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.” — Lord Byron

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“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.” — Ansel Adams

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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” — William Butler Yeats

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“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.” — George Eliot

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“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.” — George Eliot

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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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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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“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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“I live and love in God's peculiar light.” — Michelangelo

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

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

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

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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” — André Gide

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

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“There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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