Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson) Quotes
Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
A. R. Ammons
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
Quincy Jones
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My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
Samuel Adams
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
Edmund Burke
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The revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.
Karl Barth
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God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.
J. G. Ballard
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Only God knows the beginning and the end.
Ben Carson
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.
Angelus Silesius
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'
Anthony de Mello
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering
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As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.
Jasmila Zbanic
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We can have no deep, ongoing fellowship with God unless we obey him - totally.
Bill Hybels
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I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands.
Buzz Osborne
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
William Cowper
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Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
Stonewall Jackson