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«What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.»
Author: Eleanor Powell
| About:
God,
Self Improvement
| Keywords:
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«Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
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«We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.»
«Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.»
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