#god

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The best way to know God is to love many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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