William Herndon Quotes
Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
Quotes to Explore
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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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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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
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A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
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Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
