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?
Quotes to Explore
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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'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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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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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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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?
