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"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."

"It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better."

"The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."

"God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life."

"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

"The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"

"Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it."

"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"

"Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire."

"When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables."

"We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing."

"There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene."

"We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way."

"Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn."

"Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him."