God Quotes
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
John Lithgow
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While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
Keith Ellison
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
Felicity Kendal
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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Bill Hybels
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I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
Oliver Cromwell
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Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
Stevie Wonder
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If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
Oswald Chambers
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The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
John Templeton
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?
Lester Maddox
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The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
Beth Moore
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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.
Dan Brown
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
James Baldwin
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Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
Adrian Rogers
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
Ja Rule
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
Sophocles
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Cain has built a city. For God's Eden he substitutes his own, for the goal given to his life by God, he substitutes a goal chosen by himself.
Jacques Ellul
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
Anne Carson
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.
Pete Seeger