"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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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."

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"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

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"Business is the salt of life."

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"I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition."

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"Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity."

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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

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