Alan Paton Quotes
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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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.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
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On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
