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" God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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" After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. "

" While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. "

" For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. "

George Whitefield

" God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends. "

Ethel Watts Mumford

" Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over. "

" Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. "

Pope John Paul II

" Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love. "

" It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance. "

Filippo Brunelleschi

" Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. "

" I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. "

" Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ. "

" They always win who side with God. "

Frederick William Faber

" The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' "

" You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. "

" One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart. "

" Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money. "

" When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' "

Janeane Garofalo

" No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

" Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. "

" I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. "

" I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan. "

" Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts. "

" I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

" Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. "

James Weldon Johnson

" God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. "

" You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call. "