"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."

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"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."

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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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"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

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

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"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

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"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

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

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."

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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."

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

"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."

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

"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."

Explore more quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."

"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."

"If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."