Things were in God's plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that - from God's point of view - there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God's divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God's all-seeing eyes.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. ROBERT ANTON WILSON All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo... ZORA NEALE HURSTON This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be... D.H. LAWRENCE God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, you won't be able to see the whole picture until all the pieces ... DANNY L. DEAUBé God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see t... DANNY L. DEAUBé The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate wit... MORIHEI UESHIBA We are the Gods, who create Gods, and then we turn into worshipers seeking comfort and solace from t... ABHIJIT NASKAR And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love! ARTHUR RIMBAUD And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love! ARTHUR RIMBAUD Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha... LANGSTON HUGHES Where God leads, He provides. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b... ALEXANDER THE GREAT The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian... TOM HIDDLESTON When you look closely to the path you have travel on, you will realise that God was always with you,... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA His (the Christian God) type of gods aren't gods who echo how mortals behave. They're gods who are h... JAMES LOVEGROVE The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The saving grace of God makes me perfect. The saving of myself makes me in-perfect. I choose to be p... SUSIE L HILL I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR We are all the children in gods garden
Created to watch over with his all seeing eye
Every saint has... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. MARGARET ATWOOD Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other... BIBLE Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost. LAINI TAYLOR The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us. XENOPHANES It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suff... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But the gods are dead--
Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,
And doubt is brother dev... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, LL.D. Seek God's power and presence continually. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are no gods in my coffee cup TONY LAWRENCE He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come ... SHERWOOD ANDERSON I am extremely determined to make Gods presence known to all of humanity. LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS The gods sell all things at a fair price. PROVERB Be Gods and make Gods. ABHIJIT NASKAR The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their god... DAN BROWN Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That i... JEAN COCTEAU Cake for later, cake as a way of life. LAINI TAYLOR I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience... SUSAN M. WATKINS Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued un... PLATO You cannot outguess the gods. Hold to virtue—if you can identify it—and trust that the duty set ... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD During my road trip of life I have encountered many potholes, areas under construction, delays cause... DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t... NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and yo... AESCHYLUS All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo... ANITA BROOKNER All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be... ANITA BROOKNER All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be... ANITA BROOKNER Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That i... JEAN COCTEAU New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... ... THERESA REBECK From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. DAVID TUVILL We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death. MAY SWENSON Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious... DEMOCRITUS Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious... DEMOCRITUS A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves! KRATOS - GOD OF WAR And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to god... MARK LAWRENCE India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ... MARK TWAIN If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning. EURIPIDES I swear to the gods that if you answer one more of my questions with a question, I am going to go al... NICOLE PEELER Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "... C.S. LEWIS It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me... CARL SAGAN Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things without their meddling. LUCRETIUS I have calculated in scripture the degree at which Gods love is for humanity; and it is nothing but ... ERNEST NKOMOTJE All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being... ANITA BROOKNER Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't eve... JOANNE HARRIS Have you ever thought that the battle you are in was never a lesson, but a test? Will you choose you... SHANNON L. ALDER Aren’t you afraid? The gods might send you down to some terrible hell for all the evil you’ve do... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. GERMANICUS There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reason... DAN BARKER He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufactu... BRENNAN MANNING In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's... SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY Feast of Mark the Evangelist The first article of Christian faith is that man has one and only on... DANIEL DAY WILLIAMS Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ... HOMER Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. PLATO Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupatio... JOHN BURROUGHS The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. SOPHOCLES Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods. TERRY PRATCHETT War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other... HERACLITUS Now, if Peter baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ after Jesus told him to baptize in the name of Fa... REV. WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM There's only one way that you'll ever be able to receive this wonderful Comforter is when you believ... REV. WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased... MERCEDES LACKEY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What d... RICK RIORDAN All men have need of the gods. HOMER For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Gre... BARBARA EHRENREICH When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass... KATIE WAITMAN Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely ... DAN BROWN Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. “Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in t... RICK RIORDAN Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die SAPPHO Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. AESCHYLUS If the gods do evil then they are not gods. EURIPIDES If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell. VIRGIL The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ... HOMER I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us. EPICHARMUS Were there no women, men might live like gods. THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods THOMAS DEKKER Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your realit... ANTHON ST. MAARTEN
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yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
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