988 private quotes tagged god

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“God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.”— Samuel Butler
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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”— William Butler Yeats
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“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”— George Eliot
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“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”— Ansel Adams
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“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.”— Samuel Butler
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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”— Alexander Pope
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“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”— Alexander Pope
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”— Woody Allen
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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”— William Blake
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”— Blaise Pascal
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“I live and love in God's peculiar light.”— Michelangelo
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“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”— Francis Bacon
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“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”— Thomas Fuller
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“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”— George Orwell
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“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”— Samuel Butler
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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”— George Eliot
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”—  André Gide
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”— Josh Billings
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“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.”— Thomas Paine
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“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”— Blaise Pascal