| But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. god is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- Jesus Christ |
| Author:
Christ, JesusEra:
-6 |
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| Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that god has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. -- Epictetus |
| Author:
EpictetusEra:
50 |
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| A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. -- Isaac Newton |
| Author:
Newton, IsaacEra:
1642 |
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| To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. -- Homer |
| Author:
HomerEra:
-700 |
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| Happiness is brief. It will not stay. god batters at its sails. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| The will is a beast of burden. If god mounts it, it wishes and goes as god wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession. -- Martin Luther |
| Author:
Luther, MartinEra:
1483 |
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| god cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| god is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. god is not to be found in the world of objects. -- Nicholas Berdyaev |
| Author:
Berdyaev, NicholasEra:
1874 |
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| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. -- Lucan |
| Author:
LucanEra:
39 |
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| Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of god; and defects, to show that she is only his image. -- Blaise Pascal |
| Author:
Pascal, BlaiseEra:
1623 |
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| He was a wise man who originated the idea of god. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| Hath god obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| Heaven means to be one with god. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| To believe in god is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Behold a worthy sight, to which the god, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that god is not, discovers to me his existence. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. -- William James |
| Author:
James, WilliamEra:
1842 |
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| god could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. -- Jewish Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, JewishEra:
0 |
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| It is easy to understand god as long as you don't try to explain him. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| Men are great or small in stature as it pleases god. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. god is Jesus. -- William Blake |
| Author:
Blake, WilliamEra:
1757 |
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| Acquaint thyself with god, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. -- William Cowper |
| Author:
Cowper, WilliamEra:
1731 |
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| Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy god, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. -- Deuteronomy |
| Author:
DeuteronomyEra:
-1200 |
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| Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's god. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| I Thy god am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| It were better to have no opinion of god at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. -- Plutarch |
| Author:
PlutarchEra:
46 |
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| Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of god; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| Ignorance is the curse of god; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not god in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no god. -- Ramakrishna |
| Author:
RamakrishnaEra:
1836 |
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| Evil and good are god's right hand and left. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| If you want me to believe in god, you must make me touch him. -- Denis Diderot |
| Author:
Diderot, DenisEra:
1713 |
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| Just as the soul fills the body, so god fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so god endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so god sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so god gives food to the world. -- The Talmud |
| Author:
Talmud, TheEra:
-500 |
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| Before god manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe. -- Zohar |
| Author:
ZoharEra:
120 |
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| The laws of god, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let god and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. -- A. E. Housman |
| Author:
Housman, A. E.Era:
1859 |
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| Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to god. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. -- Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Author:
Plautus, Titus MacciusEra:
-254 |
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| Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what god and angels know of us. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all. -- Homer |
| Author:
HomerEra:
-700 |
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| He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal god for power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto god is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| The Word of god is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| god is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. -- Giordano Bruno |
| Author:
Bruno, GiordanoEra:
1548 |
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| The Universe, which is the uttered Word of god, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The Universe, which is the Thought of god pronounced,never was not, since god never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the Universe itself is infinite and eternal, because god Is, Was, and Will forever Be, and never did not think and create. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame god. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in god's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. -- Koran |
| Author:
KoranEra:
651 |
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