Samuel Butler Quotes
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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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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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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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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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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I still don’t have any real interest in painting. I haven’t spoken about it either. I paint for my foundation.. to sell my work for charity. I can’t ask anyone to support or praise my paintings. I’m not a beggar. Tomorrow even if I have nothing at all, I’ll do something or the other, but I won’t beg.
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But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
