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"They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?"

"They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?"

Kanye West, American Musician

God, Sex, Lies, Rap

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

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

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

God, Truth, Joseph Smith, Jr.

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"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

Robert Kennedy, American Politician

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"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."

"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

God, Man, State

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"Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry."

"Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry."

Neil Kinnock, Spanish Politician

God, Difference

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"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."

"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."

Johann G. Hamann, German Philosopher

God, Beginning, Being, Eyes

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"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person."

"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person."

Rita Dove, American Poet

God, Thought, Dream

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"The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god."

"The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

God, People, Nation

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"The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment."

"The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment."

Roy Moore, American Judge

God, Knowledge, First

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"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"

"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"

Frances Farmer, American Actress

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"I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York."

"I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York."

Judy Collins, American Musician

God, First, Rest, Training

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"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us."

"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

God, Equality, Cause, Children

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"Sincere composers believe in God."

"Sincere composers believe in God."

John Philip Sousa, American Musician

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"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

Leo Buscaglia, American Author

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"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."

"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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"God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing."

"God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing."

Willie Aames, American Actor

God, Heart, Building, Children

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"Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image."

"Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image."

James L. Buckley, American Politician

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"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."

"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

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"A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God."

"A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God."

Walter Martin, American Clergyman

God, Strength, Hardship, Key

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"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

John Muir, American Environmentalist

God, Disease, Fools, Trees

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"God forgive you, but I never can."

"God forgive you, but I never can."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

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"God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists."

"God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

God, Artists, Care, Children

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"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."

"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

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"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."

"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

God, Church, Stars

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"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side."

"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side."

Terry Goodkind, American Writer

God, Battle, Thinking

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"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."

"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

God, Knowledge, Deception, Persecution

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"God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf."

"God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf."

Thomas Brooks, American Football Coach

God, Heart, Dumb, Will

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"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."

"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"I am a sociologist, God help me."

"I am a sociologist, God help me."

John O'Neill, American Athlete

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"Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty."

"Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty."

Robert Mondavi, American Businessman

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"But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?"

"But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?"

Jim Wallis, American Writer

God, Evil, Nation, Now

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"I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands."

"I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands."

Gretchen Mol, American Actress

God, History, Religion, Husbands

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"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."

"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."

Andrew Young, American Clergyman

God, Hope, Children, Voice

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"How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past."

"How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past."

David Wilkerson, American Clergyman

God, Forget, Miracles, Past

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"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."

"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Explorer

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"This means that to man God gave a degree of free will."

"This means that to man God gave a degree of free will."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

God, Freewill, Man

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"It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher."

"It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher."

Linda Evangelista, Canadian Model

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"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."

"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."

Alfred Noyes, English Poet

God, Evolution, Man, Order

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"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."

"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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"I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world."

"I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world."

George Carey, English Clergyman

God, May, World

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"Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get."

"Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get."

Steve Earle, American Musician

God, Deep, Water

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"Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice."

"Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice."

Robert Smith, English Musician

God, Sacrifice, Pain, Song

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"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."

"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?"

"If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?"

Terry Goodkind, American Writer

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"We produce programs that honor God and impact our world."

"We produce programs that honor God and impact our world."

Willie Aames, American Actor

God, Honor, World

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"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

God, Idea, Mind

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"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

e. e. cummings, American Poet

God, Dream, Day, Infinite

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"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."

"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."

Mahalia Jackson, American Musician

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