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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]
-- Bible | God
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.
But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]
-- Bible | God
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
-- Virgil | God
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]
-- Bible | God
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Forsake not God till you find a better master.
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
God does not play dice with the universe.
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich.
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
God hath entrusted me with myself.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
God is a verb.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
God is clever, but not dishonest.
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]
-- Bible | God
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
God is the name we give our conscience.
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
-- Saadi | God
I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.