"Man proposes, but God disposes."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

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"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."

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"Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."

Courage

"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."

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"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."

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"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God."

Peace

"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."

Temptation

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world."

Glory

"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."

Knowledge

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."

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"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

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