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• The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

  George MacDonald

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

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• We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

  E. W. Howe

  Wonder, Lord, Courses

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• The dice of God are always loaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luck, Dice, Chance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Moving, Wind, Imperfection

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spring, Men, Sea

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

  Kedar Joshi

  Becoming, Philosopher, Process

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• Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

  Edward John Carnell

  Men, Waiting, Mind

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• It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Want, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3989, Library of Alexandria

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• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Water, Faces

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

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• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Special, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

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• If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

  Dwight L. Moody

  Uplifting, Christian Inspirational, Bigs

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• In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

  Ralph Bunche

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

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• God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Encouragement, Giving, Promise

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

  George Whitefield

  Men, Made, All Things

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839). “Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield”, p.299

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

  Joseph Joubert

  Believe, Thinking, Terrible

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Kindness, Women

  'The World's Need'

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Pain, Philosophical, Men

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• I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Capacity, My Soul

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Educational, Learning, Diversity

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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• You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

  Joel Osteen

  May, Turns, Plans

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• When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Remedy, Wounds

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Religion, Atheism

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• I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.141

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Humble, House, Desire

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