"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
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"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
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"Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!"
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"Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue."
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"I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen."
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"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."
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"I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded."
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"We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space."
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"[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity"
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"I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects."
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"God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault."
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"On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!"
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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."
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"Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men."
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"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
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"God and all attributes of God are eternal."
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"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."
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"Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important."
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"There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand."
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