God Quotes
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I have a great respect for the flag, but if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.
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Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
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God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.
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People are hungry for God. What a terrible meeting it would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
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Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.
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I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!
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I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
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God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
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Just know that youre loved. We thank you so much, god bless you guys!
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When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
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To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
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God has no religion.
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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
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We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.
