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God Quotes


"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."


"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,


"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."



"Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress."


"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."


"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."



"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."



"A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives."


"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."


"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,



"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."


"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."


"God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club."


"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."


"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?"


"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."


"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."


"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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