"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English Theologian

God, Men, Man

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"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."

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

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

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"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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"My name is Linus, and I am your God."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

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"Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better."

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"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."

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"I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success."

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"You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God."

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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."

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"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."

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"God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair."

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"Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength."

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"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."

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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."

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"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."

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