988 private quotes tagged god

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“God screens us evermore from premature ideas.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”— Socrates
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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”— Warren Buffett
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“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”— Thomas Paine
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“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”— Victor Hugo
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“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”— William Shakespeare
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”— C. S. Lewis
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“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.”— Richard Dawkins
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“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”— Richard Dawkins
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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”— Epicurus
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“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”— Erich Fromm
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“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”— Aldous Huxley
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“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”— Anatole France
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“The dog is the god of frolic.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”— Mark Twain
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“If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.”— Voltaire
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“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”— Mark Twain
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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”— Ronald Reagan