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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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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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
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Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.
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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.
