God Quotes
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My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
Marianne Williamson
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Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
Bruce Feiler
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It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
John Wycliffe
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It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.
Jacques Maritain
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Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.
Jerry Bridges
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The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe. . . . It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.
Brando Skyhorse
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God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
William Booth
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Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.
Flannery O'Connor
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We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
Charlotte Bronte
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
Mahatma Gandhi
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Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
Euripides
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Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. The source of this quotation (with 'chief' in place of 'true') is the Westminster Shorter Catechism, http://www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html?_top=http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
John Ortberg
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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
Marianne Faithfull
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If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.
Haider al-Abadi
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The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.
Yasmin Mogahed
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
Mahatma Gandhi
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An artist should be as impartial as God.
Wyndham Lewis
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Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
Elliott Smith
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If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
Henry Ward Beecher