Ephrem the Syrian Quotes
Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.
Ephrem the Syrian
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
Tasha Smith
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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'.
Yuna
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
Mahalia Jackson
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
D. A. Carson
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'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
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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
Haniel Long
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
Abraham Lincoln
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You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.
Rajneesh
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I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'
Charles Spurgeon
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
George Meyer
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Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.
Jeff MacNelly
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan
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The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
Dr. Dre
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Saint Augustine
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Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.
Ephrem the Syrian