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"I had hoped God would be neutral."
Darrell Royal
"I had hoped God would be neutral."
God,
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"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
Raymond Chandler
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
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"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
William Ames
"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
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"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."
Anne Sexton
"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."
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"We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."
Charles Stanley
"We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."
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"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Laurence Sterne
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
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"Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus."
Robin Williams
"Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus."
God,
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"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
Evelyn Waugh
"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
God,
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"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
Giacomo Casanova
"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
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"Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress."
Talcott Parsons
"Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress."
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"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
Henry A. Kissinger
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
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"God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word."
Walter Lang
"God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word."
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"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."
Johannes Tauler
"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."
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"Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it."
Walter Lang
"Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it."
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"I just thank God for all of the blessings."
James Brown
"I just thank God for all of the blessings."
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"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
William Butler Yeats
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
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"God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing."
Eva Braun
"God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing."
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"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."
Jennifer Aniston
"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."
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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
Truman Capote
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
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"A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives."
Armstrong Williams
"A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives."
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"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."
Jean Anouilh
"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."
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"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
John Clayton
"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,
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"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?"
Joe Cocker
"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?"
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"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
Vinoba Bhave
"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
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"I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God."
John Nelson Darby
"I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God."
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"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
Aeschylus
"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
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"If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology."
Jay Leno
"If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology."
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"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
William Carey
"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
God,
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"Humanity is the sin of God."
Theodore Parker
"Humanity is the sin of God."
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"Why does God endow us with compassion?"
Franz Schubert
"Why does God endow us with compassion?"
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"God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club."
Gypsy Rose Lee
"God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club."
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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
John Berger
"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
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"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
Meister Eckhart
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
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"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."
Francois Rabelais
"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."
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"If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor."
Joan Rivers
"If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor."
God,
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"When I got the phrase media whore thrown in my face last year, I thought, Oh my God, if you only knew."
Tracey Emin
"When I got the phrase media whore thrown in my face last year, I thought, Oh my God, if you only knew."
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"God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?"
Samuel Hopkins
"God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?"
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"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
Mary Daly
"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
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"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"
Thomas B. Macaulay
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"
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"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
William Ellery Channing
"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
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"The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves."
John Jewel
"The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves."
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"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
Ellen DeGeneres
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
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"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
Betty Ford
"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"I did my best, and God did the rest."
Hattie McDaniel
"I did my best, and God did the rest."
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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
Philip Levine
"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
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"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."
P. D. James
"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."
God,
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"You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going."
Anish Kapoor
"You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going."
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"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."
Jim Elliot
"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."
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"If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job."
Benny Hinn
"If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job."
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"It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind."
Joseph Smith, Jr.
"It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind."
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