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• I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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• It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it... Believe in it, and it must and will come out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Believe

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• If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.

  Julian Assange

  Looks, Definitions, God Knows

  "Julian Assange: The Byline Interviews, Part One – ‘The God of Mass Surveillance’". Interview with Seung-yoon Lee, www.byline.com. June 11, 2015.

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• How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

  Vernor Vinge

  Viewpoints, Quails

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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• Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

  Simon Blackburn

  Bills, Able, Window

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

  "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error". Book by Kathryn Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Self, Wish

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

  Rod Serling

  Kids, Lunch Break, Feet

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• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Mistake, Cancer

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• Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.

  David Hume

  Evil, Religion, Doe

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• My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

  Kim Il-sung

  People, Earth, Lifetime

  Comment to Cheondoist independence activist Kim In Jin in 1936. "With the Century". Book by Kim Il-sung, 1992.

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• We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Age, Forget, Stills

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• In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that...We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being.

  John Shelby Spong

  Love, Reality, Names

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• In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

  Alexander Waugh

  Numbers, Perfect, Way

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• What can 'scape the eye
  Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
  Omniscient!

  John Milton

  God, Eye, Heart

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.540, Pearson Education

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

  Molly Crabapple

  Perspective, Narrators, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

  Adi Shankara

  Knowledge, Ego

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• To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Giving

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

  Eben Alexander

  Links, Natural, Divine

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Real, Land

  "Religion Reason Debate". Video, C-SPAN.Org, January 25, 2007.

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• If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!

  Bhagat Singh

  Grief, Believe, Nero

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