I have found God, but he is insufficient.


Henry Miller

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We rode (Miller) tonight. He was superb out there. We found him, got him the ball and he was magnifi...
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Mankind,” Henry found himself saying, “is a very large business.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me n...
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finis...
ANTONIA FRASER
But I can please God
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ANTONIA FRASER
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That charge was found by the judicial conduct commission to have insufficient evidence to warrant a ...
THOMAS ZLAKET
What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
IBN 'ATA'ILLAH AL-ISKANDARI
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
RAM DASS
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he...
THOMAS MERTON
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did...
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Disclosure is necessary but insufficient to restrain pay.
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God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many invention...
BIBLE
He played the tour because he loved the game, but he loved to play percentage golf,'' Miller said.
CLINT EASTWOOD
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he though...
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
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The record we have so far is simply insufficient.
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God, I hope she is found alive.
SCOTT PETERSON
I though I got a pretty good look. He had a hand in my face (Andre Miller) but I got a great look.
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I most definitely knows God is strong. If he were weak he would not have been able to hold me when I...
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If he hadn't had a good system of closing the gates, I think the miller could have drained the lake.
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I am not behind success.
I have done.
Found GOD.
DESHWAL SACHIN
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
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We considered two charges, felony stalking and assault with a deadly weapon, and found there was ins...
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I searched for love, and only found God; I searched for God, and only found love.
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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...
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He (Miller) played well, but Monte Vista as a team played much better than we did.
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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth an...
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He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,
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I think Chris Newton is basically a decent man who made a mistake, but I don't think Miller would re...
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There is criticism that it is insufficient but it's a very valuable step.
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Isaac did it, but I got all the publicity. Isaac figured if the stupid reporters had got it right, h...
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In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn ...
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Frankl found that helping others made us stronger, and though he was an atheist when arrested, he fo...
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Bradley Miller is a very special patient of yours, isn't he, Dr. Katz?
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In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha...
DAVE EGGERS
God creates partners and He created me to be with you. We are lucky to have found each other.
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I've been around (Miller) ... I can't even really remember, but I've been around him like he was my ...
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn'...
ROBERT FROST
My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was suppos...
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
UNKNOWN
The causes are numerous. One of the areas is insufficient concrete, insufficient runway length and t...
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great politica...
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We said thanks, but the offer was insufficient.
SAM STERN
Thank God I Found You,
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Good Morning, Henry. How's it feel to be a prisoner for a day?' Henry looked at Keiko. 'Best day of ...
JAMIE FORD
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my br...
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He rolled his eyes. " What Claire?"Claire snickered. " Corned-beef again?"Henry narrowed his eyes at...
ANDRIA LARGE
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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The thing about Bryan Henry he is going to work hard.
JAMEY SHOUPPE
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobio...
HARVEY PEKAR
I turned to speak to God
About the world's despair
But to make bad matters worse
I fo...
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To greed, all nature is insufficient.
SENECA
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s...
ALICE WALKER
I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
A.W. TOZER
There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous...
GEORGE BEST
He is an amazing player. Everybody would like to have Thierry Henry in their team - all the teams in...
FERRAN SORIANO
For me, Arsenal, have got the best player in the world - Thierry Henry. He is absolutely magnificent...
HARRY REDKNAPP
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I hear Glenn Hoddle has found God. That must have been one hell of a pass.
BOB DAVIES
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Science is chasing God. God is hiding and will never be found. Is God a symbol of fear?
EPHDAN
The state mandated amount is totally insufficient.
DUNCAN MCMILLAN
I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is d...
J. HUDSON TAYLOR
In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so...
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM
I was just hoping that I would still have my son. Which he is, he is still here. He has a long way t...
GRACE JACKSON
We live in an age of excessive sensitivity but insufficient courage.
MARCELLO MOTTOLA
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER
I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility,
JAY ROSEN
(Miller) is one of those kids that just does his job. He can score, makes plays, screens great.
BILL RAFTERY
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some o...
THOMAS MERTON
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel...
JAMIE FORD
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a ...
HENRY FONDA
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
BEYONCé KNOWLES
Was lost but now I'm found... God predestined to save His lost; not us freely choosing Christ.. Salv...
NORM TOMLINSON
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER
Alex Miller is more of a runner but he can throw it really well. McFall is more of a drop-back passe...
BOBBY CROCKETT
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
KHALIL GIBRAN
I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then i...
J. HUDSON TAYLOR
What was that about?" Henry's voice came out higher than he would have liked.
"Shh." Peter's ey...
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The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
HENRY MILLER
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ...
HENRY MILLER
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
HENRY MILLER
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of...
HENRY MILLER
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobilit...
HENRY MILLER
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
HENRY MILLER
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience...
HENRY MILLER
The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
HENRY MILLER
We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something n...
HENRY MILLER
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of...
HENRY MILLER
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
HENRY MILLER
It is preposterous and unreasonable.
HENRY MILLER
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the stree...
HENRY MILLER
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,...
HENRY MILLER
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand ...
HENRY MILLER
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
HENRY MILLER
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2) Start no more new books, add no more new mate...
HENRY MILLER
Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too...
HENRY MILLER
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r...
HENRY MILLER
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
HENRY MILLER
[...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER
Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER
In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER
I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER
الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER
el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER
Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER
Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER
I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER
Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER
The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER