Anna Sewell Quotes
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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What God hath wrought?
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
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I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.
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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?
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'If we make mistakes, as we all do – don’t run from God, run to Him.'
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Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.
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Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Presently we discovered two or three villages, and the people all came down to the shore, calling out to us, and giving thanks to God.… An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: 'Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink.'
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The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.
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No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.
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When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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I know I'm not perfect.
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God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
