Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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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.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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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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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
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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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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
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I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.
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It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
