God Quotes - Page 33

• If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

  Epicurus

  Prayer, Humility, Men

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

  Augustus William Hare

  World, Certain, Idle

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Men, Trying, May

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• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Mathematics, Theology

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Ocean, Wrath

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

  Blaise Pascal

  Funny, Humorous, Gains

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Moon, West, Sun

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

  Plutarch

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.178

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• I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Thinking, Names, Arlington

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• Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pain, Envy, My Own

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

  Voltaire

  Military, War, Sides

  "Great Thinkers Great Thoughts: One Thought Can Change Your World". Book published by Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2015.

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• To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Belief

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• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Appreciation

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

  Paulo Coelho

  Attitude, Views, Serious Illness

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

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• God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

  Dan Brown

  Prayer, Answers, Sometimes

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• In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Religious, Book

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.542, Wildside Press LLC

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• For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Law, Ideas

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.233, Princeton University Press

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• When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Atheist, Humor

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Want, Proof

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• When men make gods, there is no God!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Men, There Is No God

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 2, sc.2.

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• Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

  James Russell Lowell

  Strong, Dark, Forever

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.713, Delphi Classics

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