"By the grace of God, I'll be that man."

Moody, Dwight L. on dedication   

"Dear me! I must be turning into a god."

Vespasian on death   

"If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday."

Reynolds, Jerry on agents   

"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

Chekhov, Anton on success   

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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used."

Unknown, Source on men
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"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."

Pope, Alexander on ambition   

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

James, William on facts
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"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."

Brookner, Anita on god
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"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."

Pope, Alexander on pride   

"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

Bataille, Georges on god
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God."

Connolly, Cyril on god
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"I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God."

Madonna on fame
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"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

Boom, Corrie Ten on the future
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"I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events."

Burroughs, William S. on god
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"What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on god
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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."

Santayana, George on fear   

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"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ."

Shaw, George Bernard on god
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"Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on humankind
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"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."

Angelou, Maya on god
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"We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on god   

"Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all."

Daly, Mary on god
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"Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God."

Appleyard, Bryan on modern and modernism   

"And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!"

Rimbaud, Arthur on god
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"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."

Chopra, Deepak on birth   

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

Holtz, Lou on potential
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"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]"

Bible on humankind   

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Brookner, Anita on philosophers and philosophy
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire on god
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin."

Faber, Frederick W. on right and rightness