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Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.


Robert A. Heinlein

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MEISTER ECKHART And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of morta...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression...
BIBLE Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
UNKNOWN Dear God, where art thou? more or less importantly, whom.
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
BROTHER ANGELUS That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
BROTHER ANGELUS Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
ROBERT BROWNING Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th...
CHARLES WESLEY Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
PETER KREEFT Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropis...
CHARLES WESLEY Without God I am nothing. With God I am everything.
JIM GENOVESE But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with...
BIBLE I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being th...
VERA FARMIGA For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my peop...
BIBLE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE O God, Thou art a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in Thy being, wisdom, power, holiness,...
GEORGE GILLESPIE I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there ...
GEORGE HERBERT I believe in me. I'm God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being. I a...
AL GOLDSTEIN If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
JOHANNES TAULER I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n...
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WALTER JON WILLIAMS A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal...
BIBLE Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Be not afraid that t...
UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO 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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I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sa...
CARLTON T. BROWN Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
JOHN DONNE I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN Nature is the art of God.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Nature is the art of God
DANTE ALIGHIERI A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG I am God.
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vi...
BIBLE O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Sela...
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C. JOYBELL C. What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...
JOHN BUNYAN To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine ow...
ABU SA'ID I am a sociologist, God help me.
JOHN O'NEILL I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barb...
SAINT PATRICK Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork.I'm sorry, what was that last on...
JON STEWART You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God...
BOB DYLAN I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G...
WALT WHITMAN He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god
VESPASIAN If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
LEONARDO DA VINCI Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 It behoves thee to love G...
RICHARD ROLLE 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.
I'm sorry, what was that la...
JON STEWART GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for t...
BIBLE The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an o...
CHARLES FORT God help the Minister that meddles with art!
LORD MELBOURNE Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
QURAN God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I am the instrument, God is the inspiration.
JIM GENOVESE I am my only God.
LANA DEL REY Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...
CHARLES BRADLAUGH Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.
TERRY PRATCHETT I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
SAI BABA Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become sa...
BRUNO DUMONT God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's c...
DESMOND TUTU Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
DAN COLEN 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 I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
EDWARD ELGAR After all, God is God because he remembers.
ELIE WIESEL I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation,...
HENRY MARTYN This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Plea...
JOHN GREEN I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is matter; and that it is no matter ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10
BIBLE God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
RAMAKRISHNA I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess...
SAINT PATRICK I believe that all things are possible under God.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world...
MEHMET ALI AğCA My name is Linus, and I am your God.
LINUS TORVALDS God is the artist, and I am his brush.
JIM GENOVESE Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND I am not God, but I am my creator
TERRY JOSEPHSON Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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