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"Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns."
"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."
"I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky."
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
"To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
"He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not."
"The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed."
"You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured."
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
"Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden."
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
"Spirituality is the science of the Soul."
"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."
"Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces."
"What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure."
"You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!"
"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
"We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses."
