988 private quotes tagged god

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir

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“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” — Alan Watts

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“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.” — Steven Wright

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“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” — Albert Einstein

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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” — Alan Watts

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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.” — Plutarch

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“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” — Francis Bacon

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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” — Aristotle

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“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.” — John Lennon

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“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.” — Victor Hugo

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“God's first creature, which was light.” — Francis Bacon

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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” — William Shakespeare

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“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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