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  Bible Quotes - Love is patient, love is kind   “Every word in God’s Book is there by deliberate design, namely the Holy Ghost. Each sentence in the Scriptures is divinely structured.” ― Cory Trout   “Polytheistic Greek mythology includes some stories that tell of intervention by Zeus in human affairs but others that tell of Zeus’s life among his fellow gods. In the Bible, God, being the only god, does not have that second kind of action through which to present himself. But the peculiarity of God’s character does not end there. God could conceivably engage in some kind of demonstrative action that would serve his own self-presentation apart from any interaction with man: miraculous displays, cosmic disruptions, the creation of other worlds. But in fact he refrains from all such activity. Not only does he lack any social life among other gods but he also lacks what we might call a private life. His only way of pursuing an interest in himself is through mankind.” ...

  Bible Quotes - The Word Of God Is TRUTH!   “We should have peace in the difference in religious books as we do with the difference in language. Is there a wrong way to communicate?” ― Dushawn Banks, True Blue   “It takes one crippled man just to make a hundred people appreciate walking. We like to measure our blessings. The sacrificial lamb.” ― Dushawn Banks, True Blue   “It is as natural to the Icelandic heart to turn to poetry in times of stress as for another to search his Bible.” ― Laura Goodman Salverson, The viking heart   “The Word Of God Is TRUTH! Whether or Not You Know It, Believe It, or Obey It, The Word of God Is TRUTH.” ― Brenda Diann Johnson   “People don’t know. And the more I thought about this, the more I realized there are a lot of assumptions all of us have about Christianity that simply aren’t biblical.” ― Brian McGovern, Jesus Uncomplicated   “Light a candle every day until no corner is able to har...

  Bible Quotes - We must all die   “There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.” ― Paulo Bitencourt, Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker   “The Genesis declaration carries the central truth that each human person is a precious individual, whether strong or weak, rich or poor, able-bodied or handicapped, intellectually brilliant or limited, beautiful or plain.” ― Os Guinness, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom   “Are you planning to give Anne a Bible for Hanukkah?" Margot asked, somewhat perturbed. "Yes...Well, maybe St. Nicholas Day would be a better occasion," Father replied. Jesus and Hanukkah don't exactly go together.” ― Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl   “It is written in the scriptures That no man Can be a prophet In his own land But I am no man So I will be a prophet Wherever I choose.” ― Aleksandra Weretelnik, Nobody Has ...

  Happiness Quotes - I am very happy   “If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.” ― Edith Wharton   “I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.” ― Sri Chinmoy   “I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated   “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” ― Epictetus   “I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction   “Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and...

  Happiness Quotes - Let us dance in the Sun   “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights   “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” ― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance   “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...” ― susan polis schutz   “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.” ― C.S. Lewis   “Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.” ― Katherine Mansfield   “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair   “It is an illusi...

  Happiness Quotes - A smile puts you on the right track   “A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello   “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations   “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James   “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. M...