"A man is a god in ruins."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

God, Man, Trouble

"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

God, Music

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

God, People

"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

God, Republican, Word

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

God, Man, Struggle

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

God, Sacrifice, Knowledge, Self

"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

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"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

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"A problem is your chance to do your best."

Chance

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

Life

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

Being

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

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"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."

Money

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

"A problem is your chance to do your best."

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."