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.
Immanuel Kant
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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.
Sam Sheppard
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich
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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.
A. R. Rahman
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
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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.
Ingmar Bergman
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
Victoria Osteen
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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.
Dan Webster
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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.
Ian Mcewan
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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.
Gary Johnson
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
Rajneesh
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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.
Orson Pratt
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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.
Carl Honore
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
Malala Yousafzai
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In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.
R. C. Sproul
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Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.
Edith Schaeffer
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The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
Blaise Pascal
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
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I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.
Irene Dunne
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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?
John Stuart Mill