"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

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"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

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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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"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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"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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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

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"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."

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"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."

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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."

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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."

Explore more quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."

"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."

"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."

"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"

"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."