"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Clergyman

God, Limits, Mortality, Possibilities

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"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

God, Animals, Being, Disease

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

God, Gods, Lovers

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Decency, Man, Mind

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"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success."

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"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

War

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

Friendship

"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis."

Preaching

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."

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"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

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

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"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

"Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings."

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success."

"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis."

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."