988 private quotes tagged god

“Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.” — Jim Elliot

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“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.” — Karl Barth

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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.” — Rose Kennedy

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“Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.” — William Ames

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“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.” — John Calvin

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“It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.” — James Whitcomb Riley

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“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.” — Charlotte Bronte

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“As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.” — Kin Hubbard

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“I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.” — Mahalia Jackson

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“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.” — Saint Augustine

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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.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.” — Imelda Marcos

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“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” — Basil Hume

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“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.” — Virginia Woolf

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“God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.” — Kelly Clarkson

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“God is not a dead equation!” — Muhammad Iqbal

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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.” — Ramakrishna

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“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” — Georg Trakl

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“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.” — Konrad Adenauer

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“Trust in God - she will provide.” — Emmeline Pankhurst

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“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.” — Tim Tebow

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