Emily Dickinson Quotes

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Emily Dickinson

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• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • God
  • Change

• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Find
  • Need

• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • God
  • Gift

• The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Single

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • God

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God

• 'I suspect we would be wise,' he said without looking up, 'to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Up
  • God
  • Wise

• It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • God

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

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • God
  • Important
  • Color

• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Association

• The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Silence
  • Constitution

• Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Common Sense
  • Omniscient