Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1482.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
Source: Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone -
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.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
Source: Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry -
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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