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 | "A diplomat is a person who: ?always knows what to talk about, but
doesn"t always talk about what he knows. ?always tries to settle problems
created by other diplomats. ?can always make himself misunderstood. ?can
bring home the bacon without spilling the beans. ?can say the nastiest
things in the nicest way. ?can tell you to go to hell so tactfully that
you look forward to the trip. ?comes right out and says what he thinks
when he agrees with you. ?divides his time between running for office and
running for cover. ?lets you do all the talking while he gets what he
wants. ?puts his cards on the table, but still has some up each sleeve.
?will lay down your life for his country." | |
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Brother Kostya Kekhaev
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| "A man"s mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that
he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do
nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God
enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The
work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless
we have the assistance of the Almighty." | |
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Lorenzo Snow
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| "A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the
concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent
tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a
battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism
paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor
to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a
sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them.
Golden Kimball once said in a conference, "The Lord Himself must like a
joke or he wouldn"t have made some of you people." But your good humor
must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they
will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh
is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend
to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication
in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said,
"Good humor is the oxygen of the soul." And someone paraphrased, "The surly
bird catches the germ."" | |
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Hugh B. Brown
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| "All the gods are dead except the god of war." | |
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(Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver
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| "Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy
shines with even more brilliancy than justice." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "Anyway People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love
them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of ulterior motives.
Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends and true
enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and
frank anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for
some underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed
overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you
help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you"ll
get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you"ve got anyway." | |
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Mother Teresa
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| "As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" ? probably because it"s
so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "Black holes are where God divided by zero." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Call on God, but row away from the rocks." | |
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Proverb
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| "Chance never helps those who do not help themselves." | |
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Sophocles
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| "Education is learning what you didn"t even know you didn"t
know." | |
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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| "Every man for himselfe and God for us all." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he
is." | |
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Jean Anouilh
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| "Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability,
insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do
nothing." | |
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Marvin J. Ashton
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| "Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God." | |
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William Carey
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| "Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There "s no god dare wrong a
worm." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "For I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit
in the seats of the mighty." | |
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Alben W. Barkley
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| "For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush
with God may meet?" | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war
years: "If there is a God, why doesn"t He stop Hitler?," to the unspoken
questioning in many a Christian heart when a devoted servant of Christ
dies from accident or disease at what seems to us a most inopportune
moment, there is this universal longing for God to intervene, to show His
hand, to vindicate His purpose. I do not pretend to understand the ways of
God any more than the next man; but it is surely more fitting as well as
more sensible for us to study what God does do and what He does not do as
He works in and through the complex fabric of this disintegrated world,
than to postulate what we think God ought to do and then feel demoralized
and bitterly disappointed because He fails to fulfill what we expect of
Him." | |
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J. B. Phillips
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| "God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers
reverse the process: they create God in theirs." | |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about
our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase
our capability!" | |
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Neal A. Maxwell
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| "God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys
and satisfaction of creation." | |
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Allen stockdale
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| "God helps those who help themselves." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and
hunger." | |
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Heraclitus
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| "God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love
is." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free
will and that share of glory which belongs to us." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "God is One, and liketh unity." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity." | |
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Alfred Jarry
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| "God is with us to be utilized. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His
Love, His Thought, His Presence must be at our disposal, like other great
forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we
please. We can use them in proportion to our ability." | |
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William Benjamin Basil King
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| "God made the integers, all else is the work of man." | |
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Leopold Kronecker
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| "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his
footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his
sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so
much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a
frowning providence He hides a smiling face." | |
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William Cowper
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| "God never made His work for man to mend." | |
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John Dryden
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| "God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for
scars." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not
disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now
discern with this clear eye." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Had I but serv?d my God with half the zeal I serv?d my king, he
would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I
believe it means what it says." | |
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Hugo La Fayette Black
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| "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "I am responsible only to God and history." | |
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Francisco Franco
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| "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use." | |
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Galileo Galilei
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| "I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one
against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off.
But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where
everything has a distinct contour." | |
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Mme. Chiang Kai-shek
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| "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but
whatever I have placed in God"s hands, that I still possess." | |
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Martin Luther
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| "I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be
obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in
this our day." | |
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Heber J. Grant
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| "I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God,
and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his
Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the
whining of a door." | |
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John Donne
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| "Ian Malcom: God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God
creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs. Dr. Ellie Sattler:
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth." | |
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Movie
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| "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute
thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."" | |
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Jack Handey
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| "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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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." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is
just." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love
to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of
spirit.... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our
behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is
there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we
shrink from the smallest?" | |
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François Fénelon
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| "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as
is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other
contempt." | |
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Plutarch
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| "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion
as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is
contumely." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a
conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of god." | |
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Karl Barth
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| "Let any true man go into silence; strip himself of all pretense, and
selfishness, and sensuality, and sluggishness of soul; lift off thought
after thought, passion after passion, till he reaches the inmost depth of
all; remember how short a time and he was not at all; how short a time
again, and he will not be here; open his window and look upon the night,
how still its breath, how solemn its march, how deep its perspective, how
ancient its forms of light; and think how little he knows except the
perpetuity of God, and the mysteriousness of life: -- and it will be
strange if he does not feel the Eternal Presence as close upon his soul as
the breeze upon his brow; if he does not say, "O Lord, art thou ever
near as this, and have I not known thee?" -- if the true proportions
and the genuine spirit of life do not open on his heart with infinite
clearness and show him the littleness of his temptations and the grandeur
of his trust. He is ashamed to have found weariness in toil so light, and
tears where there was no trial to the brave. He discovers with
astonishment how small the dust that has blinded him, and from the height
of a quiet and holy love looks down with incredulous sorrow on the
jealousies and fears and irritations that have vexed his life. A mighty
wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole
atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of
difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no
more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is
now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with
the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but as a wave of his
unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place
of the Almighty." | |
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James Martineau
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| "Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our
unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We
insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own
image." | |
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A. W. Tozer
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| "Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that
there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his
conviction." | |
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Plato
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| "O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the
blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be
all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of
peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be
ne"er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer. There, where no
trouble distraction can bring, we the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing,
while for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise thy blessed people
eternally raise. Now, in the meantime, with hearts raised on high, we for
that country must yearn and must sigh, seeking Jerusalem, dear native
land, through the long exile on Babylon"s strand. Low before him with our
praises we fall, of whom, and in whom, and through whom are all; of whom,
the Father; and in whom, the Son; through whom, the Spirit, with both ever
one." | |
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Peter Pierre Abélard
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| "Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower,
not the owner." | |
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Ernest Rutherford
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| "Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days
among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or
judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the
contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the
contrary, he admonished them that "every one be fully convinced in his own
mind" (Rom. 14:5), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them
are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His
will.... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his
own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same....
For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together
according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete
will." | |
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Kokichi Kurosaki
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| "People see God every day; they just don"t recognize Him." | |
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Pearl Mae Bailey
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| "Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from
what we know?" | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Say what you know, do what you must, come what may." | |
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Sonja Kovalevsky
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| "Somewhere, and I can"t find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who
asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin,
would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know."
"Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"" | |
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Annie Dillard
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| "The best way to know God is to love many things." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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| "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." | |
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Saint Teresa of Avila
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| "The gods help them that help themselves." | |
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Aesop
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| "The gods, too, are fond of a joke." | |
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Aristotle
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| "The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not
God." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "The image of the God whom the faithful creates is the Image of the
God whom his own being reveals. Thus it is psychologically true to say
that "the God created in the faiths" is the symbol of the Self. The God to
whom we pray can be only the God who reveals Himself to us, by us, and for
us, but it is praying to Him that we cause the "God created in the faiths"
to be himself enveloped in the Divine Compassion, that is, existentiated,
manifested by it. The theophanies of the "Gods" manifested to the heart or
to the faiths are all theophanies of the real One God (Haqq Haqiqi). When
we are the musalli, this must be borne in mind; he who knows this is the
gnostic who has untied the knot of closed, limited dogmas, because for him
they have become theophanic symbols." | |
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Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi
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| "The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be
manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His
purposes." | |
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Orson Ferguson Whitney
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| "The noblest employment of the mind of man, is the study of the works
of his creator." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat
is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The
nakedness of woman is the work of God." | |
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William Blake
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| "The solution lies in a complete realization of what we mean by
asserting that God is Almighty. The two ideas of Freewill and Divine
Sovereignty can not be reconciled in our own minds, but that does not
prevent them from being reconciled in God"s mind. We measure Him by our
own intellectual standard if we think otherwise. And so our solution of
the problem of Freewill and of the problems of history and of individual
salvation must finally lie in the full acceptance and realization of what
is implied by the infinity and the omniscience of God." | |
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William Sanday
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| "The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.
God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the
present civil war it is quite possible that God"s purpose is something
different from the purpose of either party ? and yet the human
instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to
effect His purpose." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Then God ? may He be exalted! ? said to me, "What are you?" I
replied, "I am two things, according to two different relations. With
respect to You, I am the Eternal, forever and ever. I am the necessary
Being who epiphanizes himself. My necessity proceeds from the necessity of
Your essence and my eternity from the eternity of Your knowledge and Your
attributes. "With respect to me, I am pure non-being who has never
breathed the perfume of existence, the adventitious being who remains
nonexistent in his adventitiousness. I only possess being so long as I am
present with You and for You. Left to myself and absent from You I am one
who is not, even while he is (fa-ana mafqud mawjud)."" | |
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Abd al-Kader
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| "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe
that I was not He." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as
somewhat of a recluse." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say
that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not
the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us." | |
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The Bible
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| "To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is
absurd." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "To love another person is to see the face of God." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in
adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which
are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this
can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal
body." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God
himself lend aid." | |
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Euripides
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| "We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and
occasion." | |
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William Penn
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| "We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character
of the Savior." | |
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
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| "What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to
the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And
justify the ways of God to men." | |
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John Milton
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| "What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to
us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with
God." | |
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Monica Baldwin
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| "When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Who can explain Joseph Smith? What are "revelations from God"? What
is their test? Is it not beyond reason that a lad, born of poor parents,
devoid of any save the commonest education, too poor to buy books, should
have accomplished what he did in less than 40 years, unless there was some
great reason for it? Let any one, even a literary genius, after 40 years of
life, try to write a companion volume to the Book of Mormon, and then
almost daily for a number of years give out "revelations" that internally
harmonize one with another, at the same time formulate a system of
doctrine for a church, introduce many new principles, resuscitate extinct
priesthoods and formulate a system of Church government which has no
superior upon earth . . . to deny such a man a wonderful power over the
human heart and intellect is absurd. Only fanatical prejudice can ignore
it. However he may be accounted for by the reasoning mind, Joseph Smith,
the Mormon Prophet was one of the wonders of his time." | |
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George Wharton James
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| "Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men." | |
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Unknown
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| "Why is it when we talk to God, we"re said to be praying?but when God
talks to us, we"re schizophrenic?" | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you
expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not
possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the
Garden?" | |
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Thomas à Kempis
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| "You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you
want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because
he did his thinking beforehand." | |
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Maurice Switzer
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| "Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." | |
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Pierre Laplace
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| "ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter
and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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