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"We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven."
Russell M. Nelson
"We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven."
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"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
Samuel Rutherford
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
God,
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"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
William Penn
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
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"God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability."
Neal A. Maxwell
"God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability."
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"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
Jackie Kennedy
"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
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"I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did."
Augusto Pinochet
"I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did."
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"I'm not God - but I am something similar."
Roberto Duran
"I'm not God - but I am something similar."
God,
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"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
Gottfried Leibniz
"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
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"I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created."
Ali MacGraw
"I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
Stephen Hawking
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
Ansel Adams
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
Aeschylus
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
Meister Eckhart
"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
God,
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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
Lenny Bruce
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
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"Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four."
Ivan Turgenev
"Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four."
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"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."
Ida B. Wells
"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."
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"God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight."
Reggie White
"God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight."
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"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him."
Louis XIV
"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him."
God,
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"It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you."
Norma McCorvey
"It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you."
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"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
John Philpot Curran
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
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"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
John Calvin
"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
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"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
Plutarch
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
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"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
Charles Hodge
"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
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"Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God."
Ibrahim Rugova
"Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God."
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"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
Rowan Williams
"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
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"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
Paul Dirac
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
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"However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent."
Malcolm Boyd
"However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent."
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"God gave us the mind so that we can know him."
Michael Servetus
"God gave us the mind so that we can know him."
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"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
Isaac Asimov
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
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"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."
Ernst Moritz Arndt
"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."
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"To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here."
Jonathan Edwards
"To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here."
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"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."
Leslie Nielsen
"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."
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"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
Saint Augustine
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
God,
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"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."
Tim Cahill
"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."
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"I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."
Joan of Arc
"I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."
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"If God exists, I'd be the first to be told."
Anna de Noailles
"If God exists, I'd be the first to be told."
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"And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all."
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all."
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"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
Peter O'Toole
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
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"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."
Julian Huxley
"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."
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"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
Karl Rahner
"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
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"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
John C. Reilly
"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."
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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
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"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
Matthew Henson
"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
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"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
John Polkinghorne
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
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"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
John Calvin
"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
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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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"One and God make a majority."
Frederick Douglass
"One and God make a majority."
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"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
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"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
Pope John Paul II
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
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