Quotes with god-eclipsing

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1428.

  • Henry Ward Beecher The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Billy Graham The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Aldous Huxley The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Berger The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Billy Graham The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • William Adams Brown The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.
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  • Arthur Middleton The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Martin Luther The devil is God's ape!
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The dice of God are always loaded.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alan Watts The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Jean Rostand The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The dog is the god of frolic.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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