Fernando Pessoa Quotes
My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
Quotes to Explore
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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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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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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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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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
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The State is a jealous God and will brook no rivals. Its sovereignty must pervade everyone and all feeling must be run into the stereotyped forms of romantic patriotic militarism which is the traditional expression of the State herd-feeling.
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
