Samuel Butler Quotes
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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 really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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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.
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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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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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Creation is in fact a fault, man’s famous sin thereby appearing as a minor version of a much graver one. What are we guilty of, except of having followed, more or less slavishly, the Creator’s example? Easy to recognize in ourselves the fatality which was His: not for nothing have we issued from the hands of a wicked and woebegone god, a god accursed.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round.
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We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
