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"Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem."

"Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem."

Charlene Tilton, American Actress

God, Purpose, Self, Teenage

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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."

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

God, People, Destiny, Eye

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"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."

"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

God, Man, Prayer, Will

12

"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."

"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."

Willie Aames, American Actor

God, Heart, Grace

12

"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."

"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

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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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"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."

"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."

John Newton, American Soldier

12

"Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?"

"Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?"

O. J. Simpson, American Athlete

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"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."

John Lennon, English Musician

God, Time, Temple

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"Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God."

"Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God."

William Law, English Clergyman

God, Nothing, Separation, Will

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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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"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

God, Future, Ignorance, Man

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"By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way."

"By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

God, Being, Prayer

12

"God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all."

"God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all."

George Carey, English Clergyman

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"Man appoints, and God disappoints."

"Man appoints, and God disappoints."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church."

"I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

God, Soul, People, Church

12

"But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title."

"But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

God, Devil, Poor, Right

12

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

William R. Alger, American Writer

God, Peace, Victory, Destiny

12

"When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself."

"When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself."

Nina Hagen, German Musician

God, Growing up

12

"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."

"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."

Alphonsus Liguori, Italian Clergyman

12

"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."

"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."

William Blake, English Poet

God, Benefits, Right, Will

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"We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them."

"We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them."

Della Reese, American Musician

12

"We say the name of God, but that is only habit."

"We say the name of God, but that is only habit."

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman

God, Habit, Name

12

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."

Joan Rivers, American Comedian

God, History, Mystery, Present

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"God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present."

"God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present."

Little Richard, American Musician

12

"You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway."

"You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway."

Alain Delon, French Actor

12

"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment."

"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment."

Pat Buckley, Irish Clergyman

God, Nature, Animals, Birds

12

"Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened."

"Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened."

Reba McEntire, American Musician

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"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."

"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."

Frances Farmer, American Actress

God, Forget, Heaven, Man

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"There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God."

"There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God."

Catherine McAuley, Irish Clergyman

God, Guidance, Prudence, Vigilance

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"I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

"I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

Jimmy Swaggart, American Clergyman

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"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."

"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

God, Humanity, Liberty, Worship

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"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

John Ralston Saul, Canadian Author

God, Leaders, Risk

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"God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is."

"God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is."

Kirstie Alley, American Actress

God, Extreme, Reason

12

"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"

"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"

Pierre Loti, French Writer

God, Determination, Duty, Vow

12

"Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God."

"Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God."

Ernest Holmes, American Theologian

12

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

12

"Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God."

Heywood Broun, American Journalist

12

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

God, Gods, Gifts, Mankind, Reason

12

"Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God."

"Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God."

James Prescott Joule, English Physicist

God, Order, Universe, Will

12

"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."

"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."

Frederica Montseny, Spanish Politician

12

"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."

"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

God, Fight, Play

12

"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."

"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."

Stefan Zweig, Austrian Writer

God, Gods, Deed, Fate

12

"As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail."

"As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail."

Adam Clarke, British Theologian

God, Truth, Enemy

12

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

Alfred A. Montapert, American Author

12

"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

12

"I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself."

"I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself."

Charles Simeon, English Clergyman

God, Thought, Circumstance, Reason

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"God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world."

"God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world."

Arthur Peacocke, English Theologian

God, Creativity, Existence, World

12

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

God, Sermons, Sound

12

"Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same."

"Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same."

Wilhelm Reich, Austrian Psychologist

God, People, Fear

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