Gerrit Smith Quotes
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Gerrit Smith
Quotes to Explore
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Bayard Rustin
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
Walter Martin
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
Ja Rule
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
Adam Hamilton
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
Immanuel Kant
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
Barack Obama
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The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.
Arthur C. Clarke
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
Agatha Christie
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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher Hitchens
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Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
Charles Studd
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I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.
Andrea Bocelli
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
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He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
Charles Eastman
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“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
Karl Weierstrass
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With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
John Milton
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Gerrit Smith
