“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Ellen DeGeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“You seem to be angry with religion, angry with god. Am I wrong in my perception?”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Hitchens-"Not with god, obviously,that would be absurd."
Hannity's America, May 13, 2007, interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Derek Parfit, ‘An Interview with Derek Parfit’, Cogito, Vol. 9, No. 2 (August, 1995), p. 118
“Thank God, I have done my duty.”
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress
Best Supporting Actress of 1990 Acceptance Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHo8LyroI4, for Ghost <br class="br">Oscar speech
“Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Edmund Jenings, 27 September 1782 http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0217, also quoted in John Adams (2008) by David McCullough, p. 272 <br class="br">1780s
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
George Washington Carver (1864–1943) botanist
George Washington Carver: In His Own Words http://books.google.es/books?id=JcncXGNSJQQC&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s (1991), edited by Gary R. Kremer, University of Missouri Press, p. 135
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Hannity's America, May 13, 2007 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
Source: Woman To Woman: Candid Conversations From Me To You