Quotes with god-eclipsing

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1428.

  • Victor Hugo To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Georges Bataille 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.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Cormac McCarthy To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Ben Gibbard To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer 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.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Aleister Crowley To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • David Hare To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • H. L. Wayland To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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  • Woody Allen To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher 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)
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  • Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach 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
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin 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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