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  • St. Teresa of Avila We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Ben Barnes You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Blake ''When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?'' O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ''Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.''
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland ''Work and wait'', ''work and wait'' is what God says to us in creation.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Watterson (Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Armstrong Williams A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Jane Austen A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aeschylus A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • James Thomson A little, round, fat, oily man of God.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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