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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
-Martin Luther
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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
-George Macdonald
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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
-Alexander Maclaren
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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
-Joseph De Maistre
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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
-Andre Malraux
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.
-Brennan Manning
Signature of Jesus, pp. 188-189
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Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
-Andrew Matthews
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
-H. L. Mencken
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
-F. B. Meyer
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
-Michel de Montaigne
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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
-Charles Montesquieu
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
-Mother Theresa
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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
-John Newton
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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.
-Julian of Norwich
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When men make gods, there is no God!
-Eugene O'Neill
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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
-William Paley
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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
-William Paley
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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
-Blaise Pascal
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-Blaise Pascal
Pensees (418) known as Pascal's Wager
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
-Jean Paul
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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.
-William M. Peck
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