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Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.


Robert Heinlein

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BROTHER ANGELUS That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
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JIM GENOVESE And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal...
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Hands are joined in prayers to complete the circuit of our soul with that of the almighty.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n...
MEISTER ECKHART If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barb...
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AL GOLDSTEIN I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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JIM GENOVESE Love is naked and unashamed and infinitely
assessable to the world He gave Himself up for.
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ABU SA'ID All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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JOHN BUNYAN Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN Nature is the art of God.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Nature is the art of God
DANTE ALIGHIERI I am God.
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Sela...
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DIANA GABALDON Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a sociologist, God help me.
JOHN O'NEILL I am accountable.
I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sa...
CARLTON T. BROWN These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: / But if I tarry long, that thou m...
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JON STEWART God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I am responsible only to God and history.
FRANCISCO FRANCO I fear God and respect God and love God.
BRETT RATNER God creates the whirls in the water, demons create mazes under water and man gets confused.
APURVA GAGLANI Do you feel a tinge of heat in your life? Be still and God will release you like Shadrach, Meshach a...
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JAIME CONTRERAS Бог приходят ярким светом
В души к людям, тьмой одет�...
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SAINT PATRICK I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to e...
MICHELANGELO Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
LEONARDO DA VINCI A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is; God is everywhere and in ev...
EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork.
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JON STEWART Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go the...
C. JOYBELL C. GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
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CHARLES BRADLAUGH And here I am. God and I, ever One, and Alone.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil...
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RICHARD WAGNER God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's c...
DESMOND TUTU I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LEWIS I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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WANGARI MAATHAI Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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