Quotes with god-fearing

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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Erich Fromm In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Pythagoras In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • St. John of the Cross In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Bhagat Singh In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Salman Rushdie India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Patrick Henry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
    Original: Ist der Mensch ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott ein Fehlgriff der Menschen?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Costas It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
    Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Albert J. Beveridge It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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