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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."

"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, English Theologian

God, Being, Challenge, Comfort

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"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."

"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."

Elliott Smith, American Musician

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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."

"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, American Clergyman

God, Heart, Words

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"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

Peter O'Toole, Irish Actor

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"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian."

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

God, Christian, Bible, Favorite

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"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to."

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to."

Penn Jillette, American Entertainer

God, People, Bible, Lying

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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection."

"At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection."

Lee Greenwood, American Musician

God, People, Strength, Protection

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"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."

"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

God, Being, Forget

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"If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?"

"If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?"

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

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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."

"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, English Writer

God, Animals, Being, Disease

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"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God."

"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God."

Saadi, Iranian Poet

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"Every man thinks god is on his side."

"Every man thinks god is on his side."

Jean Anouilh, French Playwright

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"I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ."

"I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ."

John Nelson Darby, English Clergyman

God, Christ, Righteousness

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"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."

"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."

Jim Elliot, American Clergyman

God, Sons, Will

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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."

"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, Italian Writer

God, Darkness, Spirit, Unity

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"Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached."

"Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

God, Infinite, May, Names

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"Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment."

"Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment."

Charles Stanley, American Clergyman

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"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

God, Peace, Hope

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"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down."

"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

God, People, Heaven, Sin

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"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."

"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."

Karl Rahner, German Theologian

God, Grace, Reality

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"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

John Cleese, English Actor

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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."

"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."

"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."

William Carey, English Clergyman

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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."

"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, British Physicist

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"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."

"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me."

"I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me."

Alicia Silverstone, American Actress

God, Hope, Famous

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"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."

"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."

Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer

God, Men, Belief, Fact

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"Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us."

"Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us."

Keith Miller, American Author

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"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."

"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."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

God, Day, Meditation, Mind

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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."

"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

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"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."

"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."

John Maynard Keynes, English Economist

God, Gods, Years

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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

God, Failure, Humanity, Spirit

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"God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us."

"God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us."

Joel Osteen, American Clergyman

God, Money, Destiny

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"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."

"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."

Bobby Orr, Canadian Athlete

God, Sports, Growingup, School

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"God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction."

"God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction."

Swami Sivananda, Indian Philosopher

God, Satisfaction, Self

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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

Lionel Hampton, American Musician

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"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

Francis of Assisi, Italian Saint

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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

God, People, Knowledge

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"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer."

"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer."

William Wilberforce, English Politician

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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."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

God, Creation, Magic, Man

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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."

"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

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"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"

"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

God, Children, Name, Wrong

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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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."

"I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."

Joan of Arc, French Celebrity

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"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

Desmond Tutu, South African Leader

God, Family, Southafrican

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