God Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Law, Null

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.457, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Law, Fairs

  JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

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• Man proposes, and God disposes.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Men, Propose

  "Orlando Furioso". Poem by Ludovico Ariosto. Canto XLVI, stanza 35, 1532.

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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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• Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

  Gao Xingjian

  Rotating, Universe

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• Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.57

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• When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

  Stephen Charnock

  Faith, Christian, Believe

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

  N. T. Wright

  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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• Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Christian, Religious, Order

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• ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Life, Running, Spiritual

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• We don't get to decide who God is.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Decision, Pastor

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

  Katha Pollitt

  Country, Children, War

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• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Forgiveness, Religious, Ignorance

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• Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

  Pedro Poveda Castroverde

  Christian, Work, Thinking

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• Be BLESSED-spirit, soul, body and financially.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strength, Faith, Christian

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Christian, Religious, Skills

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• The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Life, Christian, Spiritual

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