John Stuart Mill Quotes
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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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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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
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Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.
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I have been blessed. I really have.
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And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
