Jill Scott Quotes
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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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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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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.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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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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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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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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The human family now exists under conditions of a global village. We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums.
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God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.
