988 private quotes tagged god

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

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“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.” — 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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“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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“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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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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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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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.” — Alexander Pope

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

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

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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” — John F. Kennedy

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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” — C. S. Lewis

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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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“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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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 have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.” — Voltaire

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“God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.” — Samuel Butler

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