God Quotes
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I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.
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I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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'The gods are on the side of the stronger,' according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.
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You have never been blessed out or bawled out or chewed out unless you got it from The Boo in his prime. Did I say he was five times louder than God? I'm sorry if that sounds sacrilegious and it certainly is not true. The Boo was at least ten times louder than God and I was scared of him my entire cadet career.
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I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
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A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.
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I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
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Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.
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I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
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What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.
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I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
