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• Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

  Richard Dawkins

  Differences, People, Needs

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• When I need God most, He comes
  to me the fastest and closest. When
  I need the creation most, they run
  from me the fastest and farthest.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Needs, Creation

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• ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Perfect, Needs

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• The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

  Francis Chan

  Perfect, Needs, Faults

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.103, David C Cook

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• We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Prayer

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• A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Distance, Humble, Blessing

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.65, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving, Needs, Use

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• But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Powerful, Dark, Order

  Bernard Cornwell (1998). “Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

  Kim Harrison

  Sight, Trying, Needs

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• Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

  Trudi Canavan

  Order, Needs, Reason

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• Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.

  Francis Chan

  Retirement, Believe, People

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.43, David C Cook

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• Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Needs, Debt

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• It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.

  Mike Doughty

  Hipster, Artist, Spirituality

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Needs, Young

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.94, BookBaby

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• There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior.

  Alistair Begg

  Intellectual, Needs, Savior

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2015

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• Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

  David Hilbert

  Understanding, Consistency, Intuition

  "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.

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• Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Please Me, Oil, America

  "MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence". content.time.com. April 2, 1973.

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• We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  World, May, Able

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

  Enid Bagnold

  God, Dog, Animal

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• I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

  Nigella Lawson

  Jesus, Atheist, Believe

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• When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Strong, Kings

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• The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Differences, Doe

  R.C. Sproul (2008). “Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality”, p.23, Gospel Light Publications

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• No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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