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"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

Euripides, Greek Poet

God, First, Wishes

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"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."

"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."

Danny DeVito, American Actor

God, Chance, World

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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."

"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, Canadian Actor

God, Old, Saying, Want

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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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"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

God, Beginning, Creation, World

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"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."

"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

God, Man, Reason

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"I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend."

"I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend."

Jessica Hahn, American Celebrity

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"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

God, Freewill, Glory

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"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"

"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

God, Life, Will

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"The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there."

"The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

God, Living, Old

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"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks."

"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks."

Mahalia Jackson, American Musician

God, Devil, Old, Trying

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"My God is rock'n'roll."

"My God is rock'n'roll."

Lou Reed, American Musician

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"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."

"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."

William Ames, English Philosopher

God, Hearing, Will, Word

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"Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment."

"Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment."

Walter Lang, American Director

God, Environment

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"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

William Penn, English Leader

God, Obedience, Rebellion

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"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."

"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."

Madame de Stael, French Writer

God, Enthusiasm, Sense, Word

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"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."

"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."

John Cleese, English Actor

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"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive."

"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

God, Negative, Positive

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"Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you."

"Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you."

E. Stanley Jones, American Theologian

God, Being, Prayer

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"Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation."

"Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation."

Walter Lang, American Director

God, Being, Creation, Man

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"My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female."

"My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female."

Jessica Hahn, American Celebrity

God, People, First, Hurt

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"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

God, Gods, Heaven, Nations

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"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

John Calvin, French Theologian

God, Thoughts, Blessings, Infinite

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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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"While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place."

"While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place."

James Green Somerville, American Minister

God, Choice, First

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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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"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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"Blame is for God and small children."

"Blame is for God and small children."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

God, Blame, Children

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"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt."

"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt."

Natalie Wood, American Actress

God, Gods, Guilt, Parents

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"God gives some more than others because some accept more than others."

"God gives some more than others because some accept more than others."

Ernest Holmes, American Theologian

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"Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon."

"Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon."

Jim Diamond, British Singer

God, Hope, Right, Talk

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"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

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"The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man."

"The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man."

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

God, Bible, Man, Word

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"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it."

"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

God, Soul, Praise, Tongue

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"Thank God for your mother."

"Thank God for your mother."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

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"As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God."

"As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God."

Swami Vivekananda, Indian Clergyman

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"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."

"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

God, Man, Reason, World

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"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."

"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."

Tracey Ullman, British Comedian

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"The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation."

"The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation."

Billy Higgins, American Musician

God, Creation, First, Jazz

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"I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation."

"I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation."

David Icke, English Athlete

God, Consciousness, Creation, Infinite

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"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."

"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."

William Ames, English Philosopher

God, Eternity, Nothing

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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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"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."

"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

God, Boss, Earth, Heaven

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"It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God."

"It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God."

Roy Moore, American Judge

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"Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."

"Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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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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"If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had."

"If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had."

Steven Tyler, American Musician

God, Gifts, Song

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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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"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man."

"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man."

Orson Pratt, American Theologian

God, Doctrine, Man, New testament

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