Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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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.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.
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Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.
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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
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Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
