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• All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Manifestation, Supreme

  Ramana Maharshi (2015). “Who am I? with comments: Instructions for Self-inquiry”, p.22, Richard Clarke

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• The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theology, Discourse, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

  Israel Shenker

  Acceptance, Reality, Being Real

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.76

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• No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.

  Walter Knott

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

  Tim Tharp

  Too Late, Daydreaming, Should

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, Vanity, Miracle

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• Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

  George Washington

  Imagine, Reason, Said

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

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• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Bible, God, Religious

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.274, Best Books on

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• If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Crazy, Religion, Atheism

  Rave magazine, November 1986.

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• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Church, Doe

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• I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.

  Alan Lightman

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview With Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, Agency, Creation Of The Universe

  George Washington, John Frederick Schroeder (1947). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”

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• And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nature, Pain, Evil

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.312, Random House

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• We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Divine Guidance, Ties, Thrones

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, Mistake, Insecure

  Edward A. Gross, Gene Roddenberry, Mark A. Altman (1994). “Great Birds of the Galaxy”, Image Pub of New York

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Causes, Principles

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

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• Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

  George Carlin

  Attitude, War, Ice

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• To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

  David Hume

  Order, Atheism, Unexpected

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.368

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• The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiration, Men, Profound

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• The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

  Geronimo

  Song, Native American, Medicine

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• Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  Noah Webster

  Names, Religion, Important

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• By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

  Robert Vaughn

  Believe, Mystery, Virtue

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• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

  David Attenborough

  Way, World, Evolution

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

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