Jean Anouilh Quotes
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Quotes to Explore
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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We need more young women who love sports even when their boyfriend/husband isn't making them watch!
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Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.
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Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
