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"I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me."

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me."

Barbara Mandrell, American Musician

God, Future, Tomorrow

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"That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow."

"That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow."

Barbara Mandrell, American Musician

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"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at."

"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at."

Ridley Scott, British Director

God, People, Attention, Play

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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

G. M. Trevelyan, English Historian

God, May, Waiting

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"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically."

"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically."

Don Johnson, American Actor

God, Artist, Gifts

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"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."

"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

God, Idea, Mankind, Wrong

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"God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace."

"God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace."

William Gurnall, English Author

God, Debt, Grace, Names

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"I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet."

"I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

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"God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner."

"God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner."

Archibald Alexander, American Clergyman

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"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."

"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."

John Tyler, American President

God, Being, Conscience, Man

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"Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people."

"Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people."

Robert Orben, American Entertainer

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"Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another."

"Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another."

Robert Runcie, English Clergyman

God, Nation, Will

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"I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!"

"I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!"

Billy Ray Cyrus, American Musician

God, Eyes, Saying, Will

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"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?'"

"When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?'"

Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor

God, Thought, People, Hate

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"God bless the roots! Body and soul are one."

"God bless the roots! Body and soul are one."

Theodore Roethke, American Poet

God, Soul, Body

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"You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun."

"You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun."

Sparky Anderson, American Coach

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"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

Roger Williams, English Theologian

God, Inspiration, Man, Nations

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"If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books."

"If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books."

Anna Quindlen, American Journalist

God, People, Books

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"Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God."

"Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God."

Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher

God, Vision, Years

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"I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship."

"I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship."

Michael W. Smith, American Musician

God, Learning, Worship

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"Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

"Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

Alcuin, English Clergyman

God, People, Madness, Saying

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"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God."

"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

God, Faith, Churches, Hospitals

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"Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself."

"Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself."

George A. Smith, American Clergyman

God, Soul, Evil, Freedom

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"That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not."

"That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

God, Lie, Bible, Argument

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"I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do."

"I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do."

Martin Lawrence, American Comedian

God, Life, Opportunity, Vision

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"God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."

"God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."

Phil Ochs, American Musician

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"Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer."

"Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

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"But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out."

"But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out."

Archibald Alexander, American Clergyman

God, Christ, May, Now

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"What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays."

"What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays."

Bill Janklow, American Politician

God, World, Years

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"After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son."

"After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son."

Josh McDowell, American Writer

God, Son, Christianity, Bible

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"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."

"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."

Georges Bernanos, French Author

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"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."

"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

God, Contrast, Saints

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"To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe."

"To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe."

E. Stanley Jones, American Theologian

God, Nature, Brother, Son

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"And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church."

"And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church."

Mel Tillis, American Musician

God, Church, Churches, First

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"And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ."

"And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

God, Christ, Duty, Forget

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"I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here."

"I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here."

Charles King, British Politician

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"It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world."

"It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world."

George Whitefield, American Clergyman

God, Life, Generations, Occupations

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"God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with."

"God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with."

Cyndi Lauper, American Musician

God, Sleep, Worry

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"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

Georges Bataille, French Writer

God, Being, Existence, Harmony

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"If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides."

"If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides."

Charles Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake."

"Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake."

John Bunyan, English Clergyman

God, Heart, Sleep, Words

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"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."

"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."

Ani DiFranco, American Musician

God, Hatred, Pretty, Ugly

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"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."

"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."

George S. Kaufman, American Dramatist

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"If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me."

"If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me."

T-Bone Burnett, American Musician

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"I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place."

"I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place."

Francis Walsingham, English Celebrity

God, Man, Nothing, Public

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"The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's."

"The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's."

Marianne Faithfull, British Musician

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"God knows, we don't want prayer."

"God knows, we don't want prayer."

Oliver North, American Soldier

God, Prayer, Want

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"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."

"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."

Billy Connolly, Scottish Comedian

God, People, Angels, Trouble

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"I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career."

"I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career."

Nichelle Nichols, American Musician

God, Career, Grace, Succeed

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