Plutarch Quotes

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• 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

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Together
  • Angels

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • House
  • Paradise

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Friends
  • Desire

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

  

  Angelo Scola
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • World
  • Star

• The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Important
  • Adoption

• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fired

• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you - what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Work
  • Political

• God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

  

  Plutarch
  • God
  • Absolute
  • Human Virtues