Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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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 don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
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God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.
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A copy of Skeptic magazine ostentatiously tucked under his arm, the Darwin fish on the bumper of his car proudly signals his group identification with other members of the herd of “independent thinkers.” He “knows” that there is no God, and he isn’t sure whether even the thoughts he thinks he’s having are real or not. But he is pretty sure that his “selfish genes” and/or his “memes” in some way manipulate his every action, and quite certain that there’s nothing questionable per se about “marrying” another man, strangling an unwanted disabled infant, or sodomizing a goat or a corpse (if that’s “what you’re into”). Despite his hatred of religion, he thinks global warming a greater danger than Islamic terrorism, and whether “meat is murder” is a proposition he thinks eminently worthy of consideration.
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
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Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
