When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well... view

By: John Greenleaf Whittier

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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way... view

By: Charles Van Doren

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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... view

By: Georges Bataille

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning... view

By: Thomas Kempis

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If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it... view

By: Ron Dellums

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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent... view

By: Jean Kerr

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God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers... view

By: Paul Erdos

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The course of Nature is the art of God... view

By: Edward Young

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?.. view

By: Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties... view

By: Patricia Highsmith

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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different... view

By: Ernie Fletcher

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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended... view

By: David Wilkerson

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