988 private quotes tagged god

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

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

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

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

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

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“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.” — Samuel Butler

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

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“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.” — 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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“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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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

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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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“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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“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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