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" Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

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" I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me. "

" Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum. "

George Washington Carver

" People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there. "

" God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. "

Saint Augustine

" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "

" Bravery never goes out of fashion. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. "

" Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. "

" Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer. "

" For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. "

" A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

" Every morning I wake up and thank God. "

" God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. "

" Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. "

" This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. "

" I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. "

" Every creature is a word of God. "

Meister Eckhart

" When you're not able to play ball anymore, you see who's really there for you. I would say that God works in mysterious ways, and He gets rid of your friends for you - the ones who were never really your real friends. "

" To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. "

" People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. "

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" One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that? "

" God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. "

" Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God. "

" God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. "

" God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. "

" Reason is God's crowning gift to man. "

" When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' "

Oswald Chambers

" The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. "