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title: "6 Ideal God Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“• God is man squared. That is to say, God is man raised to a higher power. • Man is the root,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-yarrow/god-is-man-squared-that-is-to-say-god-is-man-raised-to-a-higher-power/)

[Bill Yarrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-yarrow/)

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> [“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/progress-is-the-goal-the-ideal-is-the-type-what-is-this-ideal-it-is/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-b-eyring/the-ideal-god-holds-for-us-is-to-form-families-in-the-way-most-likely/)

[Henry B. Eyring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-b-eyring/)

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> [“Only the past week, Father had orchestrated a discussion between Thomas and me on the topic of exotic fossilized creatures. Thomas argued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/only-the-past-week-father-had-orchestrated-a-discussion-between/)

[Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/)

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> [Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/where-god-and-man-are-in-relationship-this-must-be-the-ideal-god-must/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-haig/people-joke-in-our-field-about-pythagoras-and-his-religious-cult/)

[Matt Haig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-haig/)

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