988 private quotes tagged god

“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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

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“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.” — Tupac Shakur

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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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“It does me no harm for my neighbor to believe in many Gods or no God. It neither robs my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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 asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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