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  • Antonio Porchia God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Billy Graham God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Ben Carson God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Albert Einstein God is clever, but not dishonest.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Haggai 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.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Plotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Archibald Alexander God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Voltaire God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Machiavelli God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein God is subtle, but He is not malicious.
    Original: Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ernest Hemingway God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Gloria Steinem God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
    Moving Beyond Words (1995) 270
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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