David Malet Armstrong Quotes

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

David Malet Armstrong

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• 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.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • God
  • Doubt

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Parents

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • God
  • Science
  • Law

• 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
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • God
  • Men

• At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Joy
  • Car

• In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send, The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Talent
  • Achieve

• I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around.

  

  John David Washington
  • Trying

• I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• It is this fragile nature of the earth's atmosphere that I want everybody to appreciate. It's what I call your place in space.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Space

• To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

  

  David Malet Armstrong
  • God
  • Private
  • Spaces