Octavius Winslow Quotes
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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 -
I believe in God. God created the world.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden -
Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce -
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai -
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade -
I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
Gary Hume -
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
C. J. Mahaney -
God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
Oral Roberts
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes -
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
R. C. Sproul -
You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
Victoria Osteen -
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender -
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose -
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
Hafez Ibrahim -
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of
R. Buckminster Fuller -
It doesn't even matter how successful a movie like 'Up' is: you'll never sell a lot of toy walkers. But that's the way we spread out the risk.
Ed Catmull -
He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.
Gene Wolfe -
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Octavius Winslow