"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."

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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."

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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

God, Spiritual, Truth, Life, Power

"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, British Author

God, Glory, Man, Sun

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

God, Teachers

"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."

Keith Miller, American Author

God, Purpose, Will

"If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes."

George Muller, English Clergyman

God, Heart, Mistakes, Word

"I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be."

George Muller, English Clergyman

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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."

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"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead."

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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

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"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

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"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."

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"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."

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"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."

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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

"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."

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."

"If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes."

"I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be."

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."

Explore more quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."

"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead."

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."

"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."

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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."

"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."