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"If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me."

"If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me."

Taylor Caldwell, American Author

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"In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God."

"In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God."

Jessi Colter, American Musician

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"In the USA there is no female equivalent to god."

"In the USA there is no female equivalent to god."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."

"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

God, Legislators, Man, Right

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"There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty."

"There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

God, Christ, Doubt

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"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Thoughts, Evil

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"God only knows what else is on the web about me."

"God only knows what else is on the web about me."

Illeana Douglas, American Actress

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"A comprehended god is no god."

"A comprehended god is no god."

John Chrysostom, Greek Clergyman

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"God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer."

"God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer."

Giacomo Casanova, Italian Celebrity

God, Possibility, Punishment

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"This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control."

"This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control."

Rufus King, American Lawyer

God, Control, Law, Man

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"That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God."

"That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God."

Lee Greenwood, American Musician

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"Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?"

"Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?"

Michael Keaton, American Actor

God, Play, Questions

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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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"The world is a living image of God."

"The world is a living image of God."

Tommaso Campanella, Italian Philosopher

God, Living, World, Italiian

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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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"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."

"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

God, Contradiction

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"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty."

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty."

Douglas MacArthur, American Soldier

God, Career, Duty, Military

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"God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?"

"God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?"

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

God, People, Israel, Possession

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"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Clergyman

God, Limits, Mortality, Possibilities

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"We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody."

"We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody."

David Axelrod, American Public Servant

God, Being, Flying

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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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"God primes the pump of obligation."

"God primes the pump of obligation."

A. P. Martinich, American Philosopher

God, Obligation

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"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

Jules Renard, French Dramatist

God, Reputation

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"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."

"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

God, Man, State

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"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."

"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

God, Son, Hearing, Language

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"Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future."

"Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future."

Richard Parks Bland, American Politician

God, Future, Name, Now

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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."

Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian

God, Nature, Choice, Freedom

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"I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty."

"I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty."

John Waters, American Director

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"Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will."

"Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will."

Eric Butterworth, American Teacher

God, Consciousness, Devil, Force

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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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"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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"For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God."

"For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God."

Lactantius, Roman Author

God, Power, Gods, Being

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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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"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

God, Heart, Listening, Rules

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"Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other."

"Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other."

Neale Donald Walsch, American Author

God, Society, Party

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"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."

"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."

Lauryn Hill, American Musician

God, Gratitude, Result

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"In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes."

"In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes."

Randall Terry, American Celebrity

God, Chaos, Eyes, Law

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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 a concept by which we measure our pain."

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

John Lennon, English Musician

God, Measure, Pain

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"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

God, Artist, Creation, Existence

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"Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America."

"Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America."

Marco Rubio, American Politician

God, America, States, United

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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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"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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"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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"For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different."

"For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man."

"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man."

John Barth, American Novelist

God, Bible, Man, Word

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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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"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

Hyman Rickover, American Soldier

God, Bureaucracy, Sin, Will

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"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."

"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."

Russell Crowe, Australian Actor

God, America, Christ, Queen

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