Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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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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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
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...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
