Quotes with god-given

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1760.

  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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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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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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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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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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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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  • Ben Parr Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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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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  • Leo Tolstoy True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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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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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Martha Gellhorn 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.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Elvis Presley Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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