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God Quotes by Epictetus
- To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
- You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
- God has made all men to be happy.
- Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
- I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
- If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
- There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all…
- Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a…
- Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
- God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall…
- If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity…
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is…
- What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part;…
- God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil
- Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe