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Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.
Author:
David Zucker
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
Author:
Barry Zito
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Author:
Jay Z
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When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
Author:
Loretta Young
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Author:
Edward Young
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Author:
Edward Young
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
Author:
Edward Young
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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
Author:
Don Young
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You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
Author:
Don Young
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We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.
Author:
Don Young
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Author:
Brigham Young
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Author:
Arthur Young
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Author:
Andrew Young
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Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.
Author:
Dick York
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Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
Author:
Dick York
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Author:
William Yeats
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
Author:
William Yeats
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Author:
Xenophanes
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In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
Author:
John Wycliffe
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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Author:
Steven Wright
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If God dropped acid, would he see people?
Author:
Steven Wright
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
Author:
Gary Wright
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Author:
Frank Wright
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Author:
Frank Wright
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Author:
Frank Wright
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I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
Author:
Link Wray
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God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
Author:
Link Wray
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Author:
John Woolman
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I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.
Author:
John Woolman
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Author:
John Wooden
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
Author:
Victoria Wood
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It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
Author:
James Wolfe
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I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.
Author:
Kip Winger
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
Author:
William Wilson
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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Author:
E. Wilson
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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God is definitely out of the closet.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Author:
Ted Williams
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In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Author:
Roy Williams
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We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Author:
Roger Williams
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God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
Author:
Roger Williams
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See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Author:
Robin Williams
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Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus.
Author:
Robin Williams
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I think all music is a gift from God.
Author:
Pharrell Williams
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Author:
Charles Williams
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The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Author:
Charles Williams
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A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.
Author:
Crane Wilbur
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Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
Author:
William Wilberforce
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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
Author:
Kate Wiggins
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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
Author:
John Whittier
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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
Author:
John Whittier
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God's colors all are fast.
Author:
John Whittier
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The smile of God is victory.
Author:
John Whittier
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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
Author:
George Whitefield
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For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
Author:
George Whitefield
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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.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
Author:
William White
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God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Author:
Reggie White
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
Author:
George White
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But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Author:
Ellen White
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I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
Author:
Bryan White
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I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Author:
Richard Whately
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We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Author:
Rebecca West
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Author:
Morris West
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Author:
Morris West
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Author:
Morris West
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Author:
Kanye West
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God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Author:
Charles Wesley
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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Author:
Charles Wesley
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God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
Author:
Charles Wesley
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Author:
Franz Werfel
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Author:
Ida Wells
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As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
Author:
Len Wein
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Author:
Simone Weil
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Author:
Simone Weil
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Author:
Simone Weil
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Author:
Simone Weil
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That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
Author:
Cynthia Weil
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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Author:
Andre Weil
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God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Author:
Alan Watts
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Author:
Alan Watts
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Author:
Alan Watts
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Author:
Alan Watts
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
Author:
Stand Watie
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I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
Author:
John Waters
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Author:
George Washington
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Author:
George Washington
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
Author:
Rick Warren
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
Author:
Rick Warren
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Author:
Rick Warren
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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
Author:
Rick Warren
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You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
Author:
Rick Warren
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Author:
Rick Warren
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Author:
Harold Warner
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
Author:
William Ward
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
Author:
Sela Ward
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In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Author:
Francis Walsingham
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It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
Author:
Neale Walsch
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One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
Author:
Neale Walsch
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Author:
Jim Wallis
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But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Author:
Jim Wallis
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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
Author:
David Wallace
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
Author:
David Wallace
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
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Herschel Walker
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Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
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Herschel Walker
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Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Author:
Alice Walker
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Author:
Alice Walker
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
Author:
Mary Waldrip
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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Author:
Tom Waits
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American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
Author:
Abdurrahman Wahid
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I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.
Author:
Lindsay Wagner
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When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Author:
Jane Wagner
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
Author:
Claude Vorilhon
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Author:
Voltaire
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Author:
Voltaire
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Author:
Voltaire
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Author:
Voltaire
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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Author:
Voltaire
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Author:
Voltaire
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I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Author:
Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Author:
Voltaire
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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Voltaire
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Author:
Voltaire
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Author:
Voltaire
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This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Author:
Jon Voight
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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Swami Vivekananda
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
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Swami Vivekananda
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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Swami Vivekananda
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Author:
Virgil
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Author:
Virgil
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As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
Author:
Frederick Vinson
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Author:
Alexandre Vinet
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.
Author:
Bruce Vilanch
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
Author:
Patricia Velasquez
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Author:
Patricia Velasquez
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Author:
Giorgio Vasari
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
Author:
Ninette Valois
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No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Author:
Marguerite Valois
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Author:
Paul Valery
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Author:
Paul Valery
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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Author:
Alvar Vaca
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Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.
Author:
Alvar Vaca
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
Author:
Charles V
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Author:
Charles V
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
Author:
Tracey Ullman
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The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
Author:
William Tyndale
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
Author:
William Tyndale
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I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
Author:
John Tyler
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The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.
Author:
Paul Twitchell
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Author:
Mark Twain
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Author:
Mark Twain
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.
Author:
Thomas Tusser
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You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
Author:
Tina Turner
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Sometimes we need help from a god.
Author:
Tina Turner
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For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
Author:
Tina Turner
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In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.
Author:
Tina Turner
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
Author:
Janine Turner
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My desire is to walk with God every day.
Author:
Janine Turner
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
Author:
Ike Turner
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Author:
Ike Turner
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Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
Author:
Anthea Turner
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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.
Author:
Franjo Tudjman
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
Author:
Ralph Trine
