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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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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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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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.
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God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.
