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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
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People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
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The bastard! He doesn't exist!
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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]
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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]
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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]
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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]
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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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God can only do for you what He can do through you.
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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
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When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
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In His will is our peace.
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One and God make a majority.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
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God does not play dice with the universe.
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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There is a crack in everything God has made.
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God hath entrusted me with myself.
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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
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God is a verb.
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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.
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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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