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"Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God."

"Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God."

Rick Warren, American Writer

God, Career, Will

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"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."

"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."

Nikolai Gogol, Russian Writer

God, Land, Man, Respect

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"Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God."

"Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God."

Richard Hooker, British Theologian

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"You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it."

"You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

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"Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will."

"Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will."

Frederick Robertson, English Clergyman

God, Forget, Prayer, Will

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"God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter."

"God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter."

Orson Pratt, American Theologian

God, Father, Son, Present

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"God wants to bless us where we are."

"God wants to bless us where we are."

Joel Osteen, American Clergyman

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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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"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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"God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play."

"God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play."

Link Wray, American Musician

God, Guitar, Play

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"There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone."

"There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone."

Andrew Jackson, American President

God, Idea, Liberty, Nothing

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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

Philip Levine, American Poet

God, Power, Mercy

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"God is best known in not knowing him."

"God is best known in not knowing him."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

God, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman, Theologian

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"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

God, Feeling, Journey

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"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."

"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."

Uri Geller, Israeli Entertainer

God, Day, Man, Old

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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."

Hippocrates, Greek Scientist

God, Gods, Man, Prayer

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"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."

"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

God, Mother, Father, Gods

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"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."

Robert Anton Wilson, American Writer

God, Civilization, Bible, Behavior

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"Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree."

"Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree."

Lee Greenwood, American Musician

God, Lie, People, Conscience

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"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

God, Beer, Voice

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"The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer."

"The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer."

I. F. Stone, American Journalist

God, Computer, Job

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"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."

"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."

"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."

Matthew Henry, English Clergyman

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"Every man makes a god of his own desire."

"Every man makes a god of his own desire."

Virgil, Roman Poet

God, Desire, Man

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"There's only one God. Call him whatever you want."

"There's only one God. Call him whatever you want."

Arlo Guthrie, American Musician

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"This means that to man God gave a degree of free will."

"This means that to man God gave a degree of free will."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

God, Freewill, Man

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"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."

"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."

Jonathan Edwards, American Clergyman

God, Resolution, Will

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"God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends."

"God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends."

Ethel Watts Mumford, American Author

God, Friends, Relatives

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"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

God, Soul, Creation

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"I am not God, but I am my creator."

"I am not God, but I am my creator."

Terry Josephson, American Restaurateur

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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."

"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."

Truman Capote, American Novelist

God, End, Want, Witchcraft

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"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"

"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

God, Countries, Feet

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"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god."

"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined."

"The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined."

Allen Johnson, American Athlete

God, Earth, Living, Privilege

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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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"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"

"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"

John Clayton, American Journalist

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"Misfortune was my god."

"Misfortune was my god."

Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet

God, Misfortune

20

"God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own."

"God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own."

Ted Williams, American Athlete

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"And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh."

"And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh."

Michael Servetus, Spanish Scientist

God, Man, Spirit

20

"Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career."

"Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career."

Placido Domingo, Spanish Musician

God, Career, Tomorrow

20

"You cannot be this successful without having God on your side."

"You cannot be this successful without having God on your side."

Andy Dick, American Actor

God, Successful

20

"But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end."

"But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end."

John Jewel, English Clergyman

God, Wisdom, End, Heaven

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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

Paul Valery, French Poet

God, Nothing, Nothingness

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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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"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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"Thank God for little miracles, right?"

"Thank God for little miracles, right?"

Michael Bergin, American Actor

God, Miracles, Right

20

"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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"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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